Suggestions from Workers: Schemes and Problems

Z. Clark Dickinson

The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1932, vol. 46, issue 4, 617-643

Abstract: I. Purposes, methods, history of schemes, 617. — II. Beginnings of statistical study; comparative table, 620. — Varying standards of adoption and payment, 621. — Factors of depression, recidivism, sex, occupation, 624. — III. Problems of payment, 628. — IV. Collectivism and "non-financial incentives," 632. — V. Indicators of quality of suggestions: per cent adopted, subject-matter, curves of payments, assessed values in relation to wage-bill, patents, 635. — VI. Function of promoting interest and competence of workers, 641.

Date: 1932
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