Florence Economics of Fatigue and Unrest and the Efficiency of Labour in English and American Industry

Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-1-134-56219-0
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 432 Seiten

Structured in three parts, Economics of Fatigue and Unrest is as relevant today for the study of industrial relations and human resource management as when it was first published.

It contains chapters on the following:

* The growth of technical efficiency
* The theory of fatigue and unrest
* The costs of industrial inefficiency
* The loss by staff turnover
* The loss by absence
* The loss by industrial accidents and ill-health

Autoren/Hrsg.

Florence, P. Sargant

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein Arbeitsmarkt

Inhaltsverzeichnis

PART 1

1. The Growth of Technical Efficiency

2. The Labour Problem

3. Solutions of the Problem

4. The Theory of Fatigue and Unrest

PART 2

5. The Business Costs of Industrial Inefficiency

6. The Loss By Labour Turnover

(a) The Cost of Turnover

(b) The Average Loss of Turnover

(c) Conditions of Excessive Loss

i. Effect of Different Physical Working Conditions and Types of Work

ii. Effect of Organized Employment Policy

iii. Effect of Employees' Length of Service

iv. Effect of Type, Experience and Wages of Workers Employed

7. The Loss of Absence

(a) The Cost of Absence

(b) The Average Loss of Absence

i. Full Absence

ii. Lateness

iii. Time Lost by Strike and Lockout

(c) Minimum Loss by Unavoidable Absence

i. Insufficient Evidence of Factory Records

ii. Sources and Limits of Unavoidable Absence

iii. Absence from Industrial Accidents

iv. Absence from Sickness

v. Supplement and Summary

(d) Conditions of Excessive Loss

i. Effect of Hours and Other Working Conditions

ii. Effect of Sex, Living Conditions and Affiliations of Workers Employed

8. The Loss By Deficiency of Output

(a) Cost of Deficiency of Output

(b) Average and Minimum Loss by Deficient Output

(c) Conditions of Excessive Loss

i. The General Effect of Changed Hours of Work

ii. The Cyclical Effect of Continuous Hours and Days of Work

iii. Effect of Different Methods of Work and of Rhythm

iv. Effect of Physical Environment and Night Work

v. Effect of Methods of Wage Payment and Other Incentives

vi. Effect of Type and Living Conditions of Worker Employed

9. The Loss By Defective Output

10. The Loss By Industrial Accidents

(a) The Cost of an Industrial Accident

(b) The Average Loss by Industrial Accidents

(c) Minimum Loss by Industrial Accidents

(d) Conditions of Excessive Loss

i. Effects of Hours of Work

ii. Effect of Social and Physical Working Conditions

iii. Effect of the Experience, Literacy and Type of Worker Employed

11. The Loss By Industrial Ill Health

(a) Cost of Industrial Ill Health

(b) Average and Minimum Industrial Ill Health

i. Physical Deterioration

ii. The Industrial Death Rate

iii. Superannuation and Invalidity

iv. Comparative Rates of Sickness

v. The Occupational Diseases

(c) Conditions of Excessive Loss by Industrial Ill-Health

i. The Effect of Adjusting Hours of Work

ii. Effect of Different Types of Work and Physical Working Conditions

iii. Effect of Medical Supervision in the Factory

iv. Effect of Employment of Various Types of Worker

v. Effect of Poor Wages and Living Conditions

12. The Significance of Fatigue and Unrest

(a) The Findings of Statistical Investigation summed up

(b) The Intermediacy of Human and Unrest

(c) The Findings of Test and Questionnaire

(d) The Scope of Fatigue and Unrest

(e) A Policy of Record-Keeping

PART 3

13. The Record of Labour Losses

14. The Record of Industrial Conditions