IMPROVING YOUR INCENTIVE
SYSTEM’S EFFECTIVENESS

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A comprehensive manual
authored By: Gene Levine, Gene Levine Associates
Management Advisors - Since 1965

TABLE OF CONTENTS

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plusign.gif (60 bytes)CHAPTER I.  GOALS OF WAGE INCENTIVE SYSTEMS VS. PROBLEMS
plusign.gif (60 bytes)CHAPTER II. ABSENTEEISM
plusign.gif (60 bytes)CHAPTER III. LABOR TURNOVER
plusign.gif (60 bytes)CHAPTER IV. HOW EFFECTIVE IS YOUR MANAGEMENT STYLE?

minusign.gif (58 bytes)CHAPTER V
        SETTING AND MAINTAINING MEANINGFUL
        PRODUCTION STANDARDS

A.     SCOPE OF TIME STUDY

1.     You Cannot Manage Labor Effectively Unless You Can Measure
2.     How Time Study Helps Measure
3.     Required Steps in Establishing Standards
4.     Why Management Emphasizes Use Of Time Study
5.     Time Study Further Defined

B.      DEFINITION OF TIME STUDY

C.     EVERYONE AND EVERYTHING CAN IMPROVE

D.     12 BENEFITS OF PROPERLY DEVELOPED PRODUCTION STANDARDS

E.     THE SEVEN NECESSARY AND ESSENTIAL PREREQUISITES TO A STANDARD DATA TIME STUDY

F.     GENERAL PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICES

G.     AIDS IN INCREASING PRODUCTION AND LOWERING COSTS

1.     Labor Performance Reports
2.     Standard Costs
3.     Determining Factory and Machine Capacity
4.     Balancing Work on Line Assemblies
5.     Estimating Direct Labor Content For Bids

H.      TIME STUDY, A WASTE OF TIME?

1.     Time Study is an Art, Not a Science
2.     Why Only Professionally Trained People Should Take Time Studies?
3.     How Long Should a Proper Time Study Take?
4.     Differences Between Time Study Practitioners
5.     Some Causes of Incentive System’s Failure?
6.     Proper Time Studies Take Time
7.     Is There Any Alternative?

I.     WHEN IT COMES TO PEOPLE, MONEY IS NOT THE ONLY MOTIVATOR

J.     WHAT IS THE KEY TO INCREASING PRODUCTIVITY?

1.     The Cambridge Study
2.     Correlation Between Executive Leadership and Productivity
3.     Motivation and Productivity
4.     Executive Leadership Can Be Learned and The Pay Off Comes On the Bottom Line

K.     CREDIBILITY IS NECESSARY IN AN EFFECTIVE INCENTIVE SYSTEM

L.    THE BENEFITS OF PAYING IN STANDARD ALLOWED MINUTES

plusign.gif (60 bytes)CHAPTER VI. RECRUITING, INTERVIEWING AND HIRING DEPENDABLE EMPLOYEES
plusign.gif (60 bytes)CHAPTER VII. EFFECTIVE ORIENTATION AND THE USE OF EMPLOYEE HANDBOOKS
plusign.gif (60 bytes)CHAPTER VIII. TRAINING PRACTICES, TOOLS AND A TRAINING INCENTIVE PLAN
plusign.gif (60 bytes)CHAPTER IX. WAGE INCENTIVES
plusign.gif (60 bytes)CHAPTER X. DIRECT LABOR REPORTS AND CONTROLS
plusign.gif (60 bytes)CHAPTER XI. CORPORATE COMMITMENT TO DEVELOPING ITS PEOPLE ASSET
plusign.gif (60 bytes)CHAPTER XII. PROVIDING INCENTIVE FOR NON-INCENTIVE JOBS
plusign.gif (60 bytes)CHAPTER XIII. CLOSING IDEAS THAT WILL IMPROVE YOUR INCENTIVE SYSTEM’S
EFFECTIVENESS

APPENDICES

APPENDIX A  - A.A.M.A. "SCARE" MODEL

APPENDIX B  - OPERATOR SELECTION TEST

APPENDIX C  - EXAMPLE – WHAT TO BRING AND WHAT TO WEAR INFORMATION FORM

APPENDIX D  - JOB DESCRIPTION QUESTIONNAIRE

APPENDIX E - EXAMPLE JOB DESCRIPTION – ENGINEER

APPENDIX F - EXAMPLE APPLICATION BLANK

APPENDIX G - INTERVIEW GUIDE: DO’S AND DON’TS WHEN INTERVIEWING

APPENDIX H - WEEKLY INTERVIEWING, TESTING AND HIRING REPORT

APPENDIX I  - ORIENTATION AND TRAINING CHECKLIST

APPENDIX J - FACTORY TOUR FORM

APPENDIX K - EXAMPLES OF TRAINING CURVES

APPENDIX L - EXAMPLE DAILY INCENTIVE PAYROLL RECORDS

APPENDIX M - PLANS FOR A VESTIBULE TRAINING AREA

APPENDIX N - 13 WEEK INCENTIVE AVERAGE COMPUTATION FORM

APPENDIX O - DEPARTMENTAL INCENTIVE PAYROLL SUMMARY

APPENDIX P - INCENTIVE EMPLOYEE’S HOURLY POTENTIAL EARNINGS WORKSHEET

APPENDIX Q - ENGINEERED MOTIVATION TECHNOLOGY BASIC DISCUSSION GUIDE

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