Personnel Administration: Its Principles and Practice, Issue 18McGraw-Hill Book Company, Incorporated, 1920 - 538 pages |
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Personnel Administration; Its Principles and Practice Ordway Tead,Henry C. 1867-1942 Metcalf No preview available - 2015 |
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accidents activities agreement amount apply association attitude basis Board Bureau of Labor chapter collective bargaining committee conference considered cooperation corporation cost Council course definite demand desire discussion educational effect efficiency effort eight hour day Emergency Fleet Corporation employees Employment Management executive experience fact factory fatigue foremen function important individual industry interest job analysis joint knowledge labor audit Labor Statistics labor turnover labor unions LEISERSON Lord Leverhulme machine matters ment methods Motion Study necessary operation organization output personnel administration personnel department plant point of view possible practice present problem procedure production profit promotion reason records responsibility safety safety engineer scientific Scientific Management secure selection shop committee staff standards tests tion trade trade tests trade union U. S. Bureau union usually wage week
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Page 434 - Many politicians of our time are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition, that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story, who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim. If men are to wait for liberty till they become wise and good in slavery, they may indeed wait forever.
Page 415 - Instead of the function of governing, for which it is radically unfit, the proper office of a representative assembly is to watch and control the government: to throw the light of publicity on its acts: to compel a full exposition and justification of all of them which any one considers questionable; to censure them if found condemnable, and, if the men who compose the government abuse their trust, or...
Page 457 - Putting these two propositions into a shape more special to their present application: human beings are only secure from evil at the hands of others in proportion as they have the power of being, and are, self-protecting...
Page 203 - Their work is a routine ; not a labour of love, but of self-interest in the most elementary form, the satisfaction of daily wants ; neither the thing done, nor the process of doing it, introduces the mind to thoughts or feelings extending beyond individuals ; if instructive books are within their reach, there is no stimulus to read them ; and in most cases the individual has no access to any person of cultivation much superior to his own. Giving him something to do for the public, supplies, in a...
Page 493 - The settlement of the general principles governing the conditions of employment, including the methods of fixing, paying, and readjusting wages, having regard to the need for securing to the workpeople a share in the increased prosperity of the industry.
Page 416 - Nothing but the restriction of the function of representative bodies within these rational limits, will enable the benefits of popular control to be enjoyed in conjunction with the no less important requisites (growing ever more important as human affairs increase in scale and in complexity) of skilled legislation and administration.
Page 435 - talking" would never be looked upon with disparagement if it were not allowed to stop "doing"; which it never would, if assemblies knew and acknowledged that talking and discussion are their proper business, while doing, as the result of discussion, is the task not of a miscellaneous body, but of individuals specially trained to it...
Page 493 - Methods of fixing and adjusting earnings, piecework prices, etc., and of dealing with the many difficulties which arise with regard to the method and amount of payment apart from the fixing of general standard rates, which are already covered by paragraph (3).
Page 493 - Improvements of processes, machinery, and organization and appropriate questions relating to management and the examination of industrial experiments, with special reference to cooperation in carrying new ideas into effect and full consideration of the workpeople's point of view in relation to them.
Page 394 - ... acquired in one locality to the knowledge of another where it is wanted. But there is also something more than this for the central authority to do. It ought to keep open a perpetual communication with the localities: informing itself by their experience, and them by its own; giving advice freely when asked, volunteering it when seen to be required...