Labour Unrest and the Introduction of a Direct Labour Management System

Chikayoshi Nomura ()
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Chikayoshi Nomura: Osaka City University

Chapter Chapter 5 in The House of Tata Meets the Second Industrial Revolution, 2018, pp 149-182 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract The First World WarFirst World War and the Great Extension Scheme (GES)Great Extension Scheme (GES) jointly provided the opportunity for the Tata Iron and Steel Company (TISCO) to improve labour productivityLabour productivity based on an unprecedented enlargement of its plant and equipment; but it would turn out that the additional production capacityProduction capacity alone was insufficient to attain the desired goals. According to the growth accounting analysisGrowth accounting analysis for the interwar period presented in Table 1.1 , the rise in TISCO’s capital growth rate of 28% per annum during the period 1917/18–1922/23 was nearly cancelled out by negative total factor productivity (TFP)Total Factor Productivity (TFP) growth of −17% per annum during that same period, resulting in a low productivity growth rate of just 5% annually. Because TFP is linked with managementManagement efficiencyEfficiency , negative TFP growth suggests that TISCO suffered from severe managerial inefficiencyManagerial inefficiency after the implementation of GES. This means that TISCO could only have enjoyed the fruits of that internally financed Scheme if supplemented by significantly large improvements in managerial efficiencyManagerial efficiency .

Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1007/978-981-10-8678-6_5

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