The principles and practice of safety; a handbook for technical schools and universities

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1919 ...in some large industrial plants the annual cost of labor turnover is more than $1,000,000. Of the workers who become "separated" from their jobs, it is estimated that about 75 per cent quit voluntarily, 15 per cent are discharged, and the remainder are laid off on account of seasonal work. Closing down, aside from its injustice to the worker, is wasteful and disorganizing from an economic standpoint, and executives are now endeavoring to equalize production--and in some cases even undertake new lines of work--to hold employees in slack seasons. The first essential in stabilizing labor is to centralize employment under one executive with initiative, a keen knowledge of human nature and a sympathetic understanding of labor, and invest him with sufficient power to control wages and working conditions. There can be no sound organization where questions affecting the working force are turned over to a subordinate or treated as a mere incident in business enterprise. Increasing numbers of important industrial leaders are, fortunately, recognizing the truth that the human problem in the organization is the really vital one. The employment manager should make a careful study of facts with relation to labor turnover in the plant. General labor investigations are helpful and necessary to show the relationship of industrial units to the whole problem, but it is a primary necessity for each plant conscientiously to determine the truth regarding its own employment problem. The best sources for these facts are interviews with departing workmen and the careful compilation of detailed labor statistics in the plant in a form sufficiently analytical to show whether labor turnover is due to poor selection or misplacement of employees, or to faulty factory or communi...

Language: English

Pages: 40

Format: Paperback

Release: January 01, 2012

ISBN 13: 9781130861914

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