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When Coach Norm Shepard's junior varsity begins its Hanover contest at 2 p.m. it will employ the same offense it has practiced all week against the varsity...
...Coach Norm Shepard said the team played "far better than we had expected." He singled out Evjy, Hennessey, Henry, center Bil Pritchard and tackle Ted Raymond as leaders in the victory...
...serve as the nucleus of this fall's soccer squad. Included in this group are Thor Thor, Will Lorry, Pete McKinney, Bob Fish and Bob Macy. The touch football six is expected to improve on its 1954 2-5 record, while the cross country team is led by Norm Hartness, who finished sixth in last year's race...
Scanlon's way is actually less a formal plan than an approach, with three constant ingredients. First, the union and management in the plant fix a productivity "norm," and the working force is promised a bonus out of the savings the workers can effect by producing at a lower cost per unit. Unlike many other incentive plans, the Scanlon Plan is noncompetitive, does not throw the plant wage structure out of balance, and unites the men on a common goal instead of pitting them against each other. The second ingredient is a system of production councils in which union...
Invited to come in and help, Scanlon pitched out the old-style incentive system, which promoted individual effort at the expense of the group. He spent days with the finance and accounting people-whose role he considers vital-and devised a productivity norm. In Parker's case, it was the fiscal year March 1953 through February 1954. He then arranged that the savings on output made at less than the costs of the base year figure (as measured by sales value) should go into a bonus pool. A fourth of the pool money was automatically set aside...