CONTENTS
Henry Atkinson
Preface
v
Introductory
vii
PART I
GENERAL PRINCIPLES
chapter
page
I.
Different Methods of Payment of Wages
1
(
a
) Day Work
2
(
b
) Piece Work
6
(
c
) Profit Sharing
8
(
d
) Co-partnership
11
(
e
) Co-operation
13
(
f
) Bonus Systems
15
(
g
) The Reward System
16
II.
Wages and Efficiency Reward
18
(
a
) The Reward System
18
(
b
) The Basis of Reward Payment
24
(
c
) Special Reward for High Efficiency
30
(
d
) The Classification of Work
31
(
e
) Reward derived from Increased Production
32
(
f
) Safeguards
33
(
g
) Attention to Service Details
35
(
h
) Loss of Skill due to the Reward System
40
III.
Wages and Progress
43
(
a
) Antagonism between Employer and Worker
43
(
b
) Trade-Unions and the Reward System
45
(
c
) Scientific Management and the Reward System
47
(
d
) The Future of Labour
50
(
e
) The Actual and the Ideal
56
PART II
AN APPLICATION OF THE PRINCIPLES TO A
PARTICULAR CASE
IV.
Work and Reward
67
(
a
) Routing the Work
68
(
b
) The Time Study
70
(
c
) Fixing Standard Time
73
(
d
) The Instruction Card
79
(
e
) Spoiled Work
79
(
f
) Allowances
81
(
g
) Efficiency Calculation
83
PART III
EXPLANATION OF DIAGRAMS SHOWING
DIFFERENT METHODS OF REWARD PAYMENT
V.
Reward and Efficiency
86
(
a
) Reward System No. 1
90
(
b
) Reward System No. 2
92
(
c
) Reward System No. 3
94
(
d
) Reward System No. 4
96
(
e
) The Taylor System
98
(
f
) The Gantt System
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