Describes the purpose of the study of the six relay assembly employees as a test to determine if rest periods and rest periods accompanied with shorter working hours improved worker efficiency. The report duplicates Progress Report No. 1 by...
Study of the workers reactions to a five-day workweek with standard hours versus a five and one-half day workweek with shorter days. Workers unanimously preferred the five-day workweek with Saturday morning off. Also included is the study that...
Included are graphs, tables, charts, and various notes on speed tests done to find a correlation between hours of sleep and speed in relay assembly. The tests were conducted on four of the operators in the relay assembly test room in 1930. The...
Comments made by the six test subjects in the relay assembly test room from 1927-1930. The comments are sorted into six categories: rest periods, hours, holidays and vacations; production, earnings, repairs and type; supervision and test room...
Does your employment rejection letter help your image?; Vol. 25, no. 1; A new definition of 'free'; If you had been there, this is what you'd heard; Why I like California; Short shorts; Is this why department stores are failing?; A quick look at...
Ethics at Federated; Giant Stores Revisited; Bringing the F.B.I. under Control; Retailers Love to Gamble; Costly False Advertising; The Risk of Selling Credit Customer Lists; Commercial Bribery; Carter's Token Female as Secretary of Commerce; Do...
The outlook for 1975; Should you use LIFO?; Statistical Supplement: Credit Office rating; The market for retail stocks; Concern about jobs causes unemployment?; Why consumerism becomes more aggressive; Around the circle again--with games; How well...
What About Sunday Openings?; Leased Equipment and Property Taxes; The F.T.C. and Inducing Discriminatory Allowances; The Ethics of Data Accumulation—Revisited; What Attracts a Clerical Worker?; Constitutional Rights When There is a Citizen's...
Report compiling data gathered from employee comments on standard hours and steady work during interviews held from 1929-1931. It also includes some information about home conditions which was collected during 1930-1931 and then grouped by mental...