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Publication date: 1 October 1967

IT is difficult to imagine the world of Work Study without the urbane ubiquity of Russell Currie, whose death on 28 August we deeply regret to record. Although he had been…

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IT is difficult to imagine the world of Work Study without the urbane ubiquity of Russell Currie, whose death on 28 August we deeply regret to record. Although he had been officially in retirement for a year or two his presence was immanent in any important gathering of those who had so long looked to him for the leadership that was always forthcoming. We can fittingly borrow an epigram he coined at the London Congress in 1963 as apt at this time. ‘The sun shone to greet your arrival; the skies weep for your departure.’

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Work Study, vol. 16 no. 10
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0043-8022

Article
Publication date: 1 October 1964

BECAUSE productivity means profitability it is the aim of any manufacturing organization. Too often productivity is thought to be the same thing as increased production. In…

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BECAUSE productivity means profitability it is the aim of any manufacturing organization. Too often productivity is thought to be the same thing as increased production. In reality it is very different. The way to increase production is fairly obvious. More machinery is obtained, larger quantities of raw materials are purchased and more workers are engaged. If, for example, these three essentials are doubled production should be twice as much. Production has increased, but if it has not succeeded in lowering the price of whatever is being manufactured what has been gained?

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Work Study, vol. 13 no. 10
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0043-8022

Article
Publication date: 1 February 1965

A LEICESTER firm of shoe manufacturers recently cut down its basic patterns from between 30 and 40 to six. The effect was to increase production by 2,400 pairs a week and reduce…

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A LEICESTER firm of shoe manufacturers recently cut down its basic patterns from between 30 and 40 to six. The effect was to increase production by 2,400 pairs a week and reduce work in progress and the stock of material in hand by a third. There has also been an increase in the earnings of operatives and a saving of a week in the time between planning and despatching orders.

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Work Study, vol. 14 no. 2
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0043-8022

Article
Publication date: 1 January 1956

THERE seems to be a remarkable coyness about industrial firms when they advertise for work study staff, as though the salary for the job were a thing to be kept in the dark. Let…

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THERE seems to be a remarkable coyness about industrial firms when they advertise for work study staff, as though the salary for the job were a thing to be kept in the dark. Let it be stated at once that non‐disclosure of salary is a thing to be deplored; moreover, it wastes time. Many firms are just not prepared to pay the “rate for the job”, and equally, fully qualified work study technicians would not have bothered to reply to those firms that offer “under the odds”, had they been in possession of the £ s.d. facts in the first instance.

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Work Study, vol. 5 no. 1
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0043-8022

Article
Publication date: 1 December 1961

THE centripetal forces at work in the world seem to draw all human associations into larger groups. Work Study has been no exception to this, as the formation of a European…

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THE centripetal forces at work in the world seem to draw all human associations into larger groups. Work Study has been no exception to this, as the formation of a European Federation six months ago indicates. Another manifestation of the same tendency is the letter we print from a correspondent suggesting that there is only room for one professional organisation for Work Study in this country.

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Work Study, vol. 10 no. 12
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0043-8022

Article
Publication date: 1 December 1973

MORE than a decade ago we were assured by the then head of Imperial Chemicals Industries that the man who knows where he is going is the one who is most likely to arrive. We might…

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MORE than a decade ago we were assured by the then head of Imperial Chemicals Industries that the man who knows where he is going is the one who is most likely to arrive. We might venture to add as a footnote that such a man's journey will be easier, his destination more certain, if he first clears away the assorted debris that encumbers his route.

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Work Study, vol. 22 no. 12
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0043-8022

Article
Publication date: 1 December 1967

DURING some comments on the brain drain last month it was remarked that work study technologists stood on the periphery. Suddenly they have been moved right to the centre as the…

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DURING some comments on the brain drain last month it was remarked that work study technologists stood on the periphery. Suddenly they have been moved right to the centre as the result of a communication from Dr. Robert N. Lehrer. He is among the six American work study experts best known to the profession in this country, ranking with Barnes and Mundel as having contributed much to a right appreciation of the subject's value and its techniques.

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Work Study, vol. 16 no. 12
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0043-8022

Article
Publication date: 1 March 1953

IN the National Press recently there has been some rough handling of incentive schemes. A number of objections have been raised to them. Among the more serious are: machine…

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IN the National Press recently there has been some rough handling of incentive schemes. A number of objections have been raised to them. Among the more serious are: machine sabotage; loss of earnings due to machine breakdown; group output restrictions; revenge on a member of the group; increased output of defective work; harmful to morale and sometimes health; a provider of financial temptation; calculations of earnings a mystery.

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Work Study, vol. 2 no. 3
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0043-8022

Article
Publication date: 1 March 1956

MOMENTOUS days for work study. The footwear industry have recently recognised work study as a basis for rate‐setting on the one hand. And on the other, the Productivity Council of…

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MOMENTOUS days for work study. The footwear industry have recently recognised work study as a basis for rate‐setting on the one hand. And on the other, the Productivity Council of British Railways announces that work study is to be applied.

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Work Study, vol. 5 no. 3
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0043-8022

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Publication date: 1 July 1956

MODERN work study technique demands that the methods engineer and the time study engineer work hand in hand for the benefit of productivity as a whole. And to state the obvious it…

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MODERN work study technique demands that the methods engineer and the time study engineer work hand in hand for the benefit of productivity as a whole. And to state the obvious it is becoming clearer that time and motion are indivisible.

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Work Study, vol. 5 no. 7
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0043-8022

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