A Rational Wages System

About this eBook

Author

Atkinson, Henry, 1873-1954

Title

A rational wages system : some notes on the method of paying the worker a reward for efficiency in addition to wages

Credits

E-text prepared by Chris Curnow, David M, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team ( www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive ( archive.org)

Language

English

LoC Class

HD: Social sciences: Economic history and conditions, Production

Subject

Incentives in industry -- Great Britain

Category

Text

eBook-No.

46977

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/46977

Release Date

September 27, 2014

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.E-text prepared by Chris Curnow, David M, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team ( http://www.pgdp.net ) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive ( https://archive.org ) — A RATIONAL WAGES SYSTEM
2. 2.PREFACE
3. 3.INTRODUCTORY
4. 4.CONTENTS
5. 5.CHAPTER I DIFFERENT METHODS OF PAYMENT OF WAGES — ( a ) Day Work. — ( b ) Piece Work. — ( c ) Profit Sharing. — ( d ) Co-partnership. — ( e ) Co-operation. — ( f ) Bonus Systems. — ( g ) The Reward System.
6. 6.CHAPTER II WAGES AND EFFICIENCY REWARD — ( a ) The Reward System. — ( b ) The Basis of Reward Payment. — ( c ) Special Reward for High Efficiency. — ( d ) The Classification of Work. — ( e ) Reward derived from Increased Production. — ( f ) Safeguards. — ( g ) Attention to Service Details. — ( h ) Loss of Skill due to the Reward System
7. 7.CHAPTER III WAGES AND PROGRESS — ( a ) Antagonism between Employer and Worker. — ( b ) Trade-Unions and the Reward System. — ( c ) Scientific Management and the Reward System. — ( d ) The Future of Labour. — ( e ) The Actual and the Ideal.
8. 8.CHAPTER IV WORK AND REWARD — ( a ) Routing the Work. — ( b ) The Time Study. — Time Study Reading. — ( c ) Fixing Standard Time. — ( d ) The Instruction Card. — ( e ) Spoiled Work. — ( f ) Allowances. — ( g ) Efficiency Calculation.
9. 9.CHAPTER V REWARD AND EFFICIENCY — ( a ) Reward System No. 1. — ( b ) Reward System No. 2. — ( c ) Reward System No. 3. — ( d ) Reward System No. 4. — ( e ) The Taylor System. — ( f ) The Gantt System. — ( g ) The Emerson System. — ( h ) The Rowan System. — ( i ) Day Rate. — ( j ) Piece Work. — ( k ) The Ford System.
10. 10.APPENDIX — A FLOATING WAGE RATE
11. 11.FOOTNOTES:

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