Work in industrial human relations to date has been too narrowly oriented to needs and problems defined by management, in the view of the author of this discussion, who challenges researchers to broaden their horizons to include study of the attitudes of individual workers toward their jobs, of...

Unable to construct a definitive conceptual apparatus for the measurement of human application, time-study practitioners have attempted to devise direct practical techniques for the determination of time standards. How successful have their efforts been? In this article, the considerable variety...

The principal objective of the American economy at the present time is to increase its productive capacity. Securing cooperation and maximum effort from the individual worker is vital to this task. In this article, Solomon Barkin reviews a variety of plans designed to increase worker...

This appraisal will deal primarily with wage incentive plans, defined to include all programs which relate workers' earnings immediately, directly, and continuously to their output. Not included in this discussion are wage bonus plans which link earnings with plant profits, volume of business,...

Discusses the statistical approach in trade-union administration. Industrial relations; Periodic and special reporting; Settlement of disputes; Statistical tabulations. (Abstract copyright EBSCO.)

Quantitative standards of work performance set and administered by time and motion study have long been under attack for the failure to remove the influence of subjective appraisal of levels of human effort, as well as for other reasons. The author of this article is not only one of the most...

Wage incentive systems receive widespread support in the belief that objectively determined standards of work performance will narrow the scope of issues involved in wage bargaining and thus enable agreements to be more easily reached. It is the thesis of this article, however, that current...

Economic cost and benefit analysis should be complemented by analysis of other value systems such as human gains and disadvantage in the formulation of sound national policies. They will help in the evaluation of factors affecting the volume of international migration, the selection of people...

It’s elementary: students benefit from pre-primary education. The OECD’s PISA 2009 results show that in practically all OECD countries 15-year-old students who had attended some pre-primary school outperformed students who had not. In fact, the difference between students who had attended...