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...young workers who have caused the U.S. auto industry's absenteeism rate to climb. At Ford, the rate rose from 2.8% in 1960 to 5.3% in 1970. And it is largely absenteeism that has put a lid on Detroit's ability to build cars faster. Productivity per man-hour in the U.S. auto industry increased an average of only 3.6% annually from...
...manages to zip through a concert in half the usual time? The answer, obviously, is no, but the question is not as silly as it sounds. The pay increases that the Government allows during Phase II are supposed to be tied largely to productivity -the value of output per man-hour...
...there are important factors working against any productivity surge. Not least are the deep-rooted difficulties in improving output per man-hour in many service fields. Increasing the number of a doctor's patients or the size of a teacher's class could be taken as improving their "productivity," but the dilution of quality in the services they perform would probably be unacceptable...
Unworkable Dogma. Boosting productivity is less difficult in manufacturing, where output per man-hour is easily measured. But even in the factories, the problems are formidable. Many industries, notably steel and oil refining, are now highly automated and have to rely largely on growing demand and greater plant utilization to bring down unit costs. Changes in featherbedding work rules would help. But given labor's militant mood, this probably could be accomplished only at the cost of widespread disruptive strikes...
Government would establish a guideline for wage and price boosts, based on a formula of "productivity-plus." Workers would be allowed increases reflecting the average increase in output per man-hour throughout the economy, plus perhaps half the rise in living costs that had occurred in the previous twelve months. Under this formula, wages and benefits would go up about 5%, v. an average of 8% or more in each of the past two years...