Industrial Morale

Sumner H. Slichter

The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1920, vol. 35, issue 1, 36-60

Abstract: I. The problem and its significance, — II. Some more obvious causes of low morale, 40. — III. Prevailing business philosophy as a cause of low industrial morale, 41. — IV. Efforts to arouse fear of the management among workers, 44. — V. Influences destructive of workers' faith in the importance of their work, 45. — VI. Failure to recognize and reward merit, 49. — VII. Transitory and precarious nature of employment, 53. — VIII. Relation between the men and industry, 54. — IX. Relation to the problem of industrial organization, 59.

Date: 1920
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