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Title: American engineer and railroad journal
Year: 1893 (1890s)
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Subjects: Railroad engineering Engineering Railroads Railroad cars
Publisher: New York : M.N. Forney
Contributing Library: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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e than the inefficient. The straight day ratein which the attempt is always made to rate the workers by theirefficiency gave satisfaction with the smaller organizations of thepast in which the personal relation between employer and em-ployees were such that by personal knowledge the employer de-termined the rating of each man. With the increase in the sizeof organizations the personal relations between employer andemployee have become such that the employer is unable to knowhis employees personally and thus be able to rate them accord-ing to his personal knowledge of their individual ability or effi-ciency. As a result he has turned to piece-work and premiumsystems as automatic means of determining efficiency and ad-justing wages accordingly. The piece-work and premium sys-tems both do this, but any arbitrary setting of rates or sched-ules cannot stand without continual adjustment to meet varyingconditions that are never twice exactly alike. 240 AMERICAN ENGINEER AND RAILROAD JOURNAL.
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June, 1907 AMERICAN ENGINEER AND RAILROAD JOURNAL. 211 The premium system with guaranteed day wage needs less ad-justment than a straight piece-work system. Even under thepremium system employee and employer are continually insist-ing upon adjustment of schedules to meet changing conditions.These adjustments are continual causes of strife and ill feeling. The next step toward a just wage is a system of wage ratingwhich shall automatically adjust itself to these changing con-ditions. This is accomplished: i i) By scheduling every operation for conditions as they ex-ist. These schedules to always remain the same. i _) By dividing the workers into groups, all in the same groupbeing employed on the same class of work. (3) By determining the efficiency of individual workers andgroups by dividing the total schedule hours performed by thetotal hours actually taken. 1 1 1 I, paying each worker whose efficiency is equal to thatof his group the maximum pay he can get under the day ratesystem, a

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