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...field. By 8 a.m. he is heading home to start the most important part of his day: several hours spent at a rolltop desk in his small study. There Benedict goes over computer print-outs analyzing his plantings acre by acre: inputs of seed, fertilizer, irrigation water, machine time; output in bushels and dollars. He draws up precise operating schedules for his half-million dollars' worth of machinery; after all, every gallon of fuel saved adds a few more cents to profit. His print-outs also help him ponder marketing strategy (when should he time the sale of his crops...
...with the New Deal, policy aimed at having farmers restrict production and sell at high Government-supported prices. In 1973-74, Earl Butz tried a new tack: he lobbied through Congress the law under which farmers could no longer unload their crops on the Government, urged them to increase output by planting "fence to fence," and set target prices far below market quotes. He got away with it because rocketing export demand permitted farmers for a year or two to sell everything they could grow at prices that the Government did not have to prop...
True, the Government also reported that in the second quarter real gross national product?the nation's output of goods and services, adjusted for inflation ?rose at an annual rate of 8.7%. That rate is obviously unsustainable, however, and a slowdown has already begun. Though no one?not even Author Paul Erdman?really believes the apocalyptic prophecies in his bestselling novel The Crash of 79, some serious forecasters fear a genuine slump next year...
Under its present contract, faculty members are granted pay increases commensurate with "merit points," which are assigned to each professor by the university administration on the basis of a faculty member's academic performance and output, the union representative said...
...raise productivity, Grayson argues, is for companies to give everybody the three R's: recognition, responsibility and rewards. Recognition in the form of plaques and photos on the wall, company dinners and other visible backpats for imaginative, high-output workers. Responsibility through allowing individual initiative to ride high, including breaking up long production lines and impersonal offices into teams of workers who choose their own leaders and decide for themselves how to get the job done. Rewards by means of bonuses of cash or time off-or both...