Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 62, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 March 1917 — How Efficiency Works. [ARTICLE]

How Efficiency Works.

The manager of a large eastern factory has been quoted as saying: , ‘"The benefits from scientific management derived by our employees in the making of paper and paper boxes—and we have been working under it only two and one-half years—are: Average increase in wages, 15 per cent; reduction in working hours, 10 per Cent; a feeling of greater confidence in that the tasks set by means of a scientific study of the work are known by the employee to be accurate. “A recent test on machines producing 85 per cent of our boxes shows the difference between the time allowed for two thousand hours of work and the time actually taken was less than three-fourths of an hour. “It has been said by opponents that individuality is lessened or taken away. Our experience has been exactly the reversei”