A PRODUCTIVITY CAMPAIGN 1949 Productivity pays and how.. 290 THIS GIRL needed some 4 years' training THIS GIRL learnt the same job in about 6 months REMARKABLE PRODUCTIVITY STORY FROM SCOTLAND LEADING SCOTTISH FIRM making knitwear has increased productivity by a third by solving the problem of how to train operatives quickly. It used to take four years to train new recruits in manual dexterity for operating machines in a key department; this held back output in the whole firm. After a costly training experiment had failed, the firm's industrial consultants carried out motion studies with the following results:— A new training method enables PRODUCTIVITY —to get those prices down Write for P.
- Civil Defence Region
- Region 11: Scotland (Edinburgh HQ)
- Collection ID
- HATOM
- Document Reference
- HATOM/3/223
- Document Types
- Ephemera
- File Reference
- HATOM/3
- Identifier
- 10.1080/wtss.hatom.000003.223
- Keywords
- Employment Industrial Production Industry Labour Supply Vocational Training Wages
- Language
- English
- Note
- Advert located on right-hand side of page. In the case of the advertising collections, the Government Department War Cabinet" has also been applied to materials released under the imprint of "HM Government" during the period 1945-1951."
- Pages
- 1
- Published in
- United Kingdom
- Themes
- Industry Infrastructure Post-war Planning Wages Cost of Living
