Word: foremen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Arriving in the U.S. in 1906, French-born Bedaux washed dishes, worked as a sand hog, finally evolved the Bedaux system of workmen's pay based on units of production. While organized labor screamed that the system was only the infamous "stretchout" and turned foremen into Simon Legrees, Bedaux made millions. He took out citizenship papers, found a new socialite wife in Michigan, hobnobbed with industrialists, finally became a pal of the Duke of Windsor, later openly admitted: "I am an out & out Fascist...
...handling human beings which are important in administration. It involves a study of group psychology and problems which arise in handling groups of men. Here the men will delve into the whole gamut of questions which arise when people work together--grievances and their settlement, handling of irascible foremen, quarrels among workers...
...help industry help itself in training new recruits and upgrading men more experienced into still more responsible jobs. Two years ago they began with only seven first-rate instructors. These seven trained other instructors who in turn went out and taught foremen how to educate men under them to work faster, or to move up to more complicated jobs. Already the Dooley-Dietz organization figures that it has trained 230,000 foremen in over 5,000 plants employing over 5.5 million workers. It is now training some 8,000 additional foremen per week...
Dealing with the time elements of production, the second course here, "Motion and Time Study" is designed mainly for foremen and supervisors. The instructor of the class, which will be given in Sever, is Howard W. Calverley of the General Electric Company...
Opening Moves. The game starts in Washington. The top agencies divide the contractors. The winning board then pores over its contracts, warns companies their contracts are up for renegotiation. The companies' first move: bookkeepers tally up the latest figures, cost accountants wrangle with shop foremen over factory expenses, company bigwigs sweat over hard-to-pin-down items like depreciation, obsolescence, reserves for post-war conversion. Sometimes gimlet-eyed price-board agents hang around to try to make sure no penny is mislaid. This statistical roundup takes days, perhaps months, sometimes actually interferes with war production...