The Management and the Worker (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1920 edition. Excerpt: ...without undue restrictionupon change of occupation or employer. (vi) Methods of fixing and adjusting earnings, piecework prices, and so on, and of dealing with the many difficulties which arise with regard to the method and amount of payment apart from the fixing. of general standard rates, which are covered by paragraph (iii). (vii) Technical education and training. (viii) Industrial research and the full utilisation of its results. (ix) The provision of facilities for the full consideration and utilisation of inventions and improvements designed by workpeople, . and for the adequate safeguarding of their rights. (x) Improvements of processes, machinery and organisation and appropriate questions relating to management and the examination of industrial experiments, with special reference to cooperation in carrying new ideas into effect and full consideration of theworkpeople's point of view in relation to them. (xi) Proposed legislation affecting the industry.... It would seem advisable that the Government should put the proposals relating to National Industrial Councils before the employers' and workpeople's associations and request them to adopt such measures as are needful for their establishment where they do not already exist. Suitable steps should also be taken, at the proper time, to put the matter before the general public. In forwarding the proposals to the parties concerned we think the Government should offer to be represented in an advisory capa'city at the preliminary meetings of a Council, if the parties so desire. We are also of opinion that the Government should undertake to supply to the Councils such information on industrial subjects as may be available and likely to prove of value. It has been suggested that means must be...