CONTENTS

FOREWORD..

Editor in Charge of Volume.

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PART I-SURVEY OF METHODS TO BE USED IN REDUCTION
OF LABOR TURNOVER

ADVANTAGES OF CENTRALIZED EMPLOYMENT....

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E. M. Hopkins, President, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N. H.

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Boyd Fisher, Vice-President, Detroit Executives' Club.

HOW TO REDUCE LABOR TURNOVER...

PART II-THE ANALYSIS OF TURNOVER

THE TABULATING OF LABOR TURNOVER..

E. H. Fish, Employment Manager, Norton Co., Worcester, Mass.;

Chairman, Committee on Labor Turnover of the Boston Employ-

ment Managers' Association.

DETERMINING COST OF TURNOVER OF LABOR...

Boyd Fisher, Vice-President, Detroit Executives' Club.

PART III-REDUCING TURNOVER IN CERTAIN PLANTS

AN ACTUAL ACCOUNT OF WHAT WE HAVE DONE TO REDUCE

OUR LABOR TURNOVER...

John M. Williams, Secretary, Fayette R. Plumb, Inc., of Philadelphia

and St. Louis; President of the Philadelphia Association for the Dis-

cussion of Employment Problems.

THE REDUCTION OF LABOR TURNOVER IN THE PLIMPTON

PRESS......

Mrs. Jane C. Williams, Employment Manager, Plimpton Press, Nor-

wood, Mass.

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PART IV-PHYSICAL CONDITIONS AS FACTORS IN REDUC-

TION OF TURNOVER

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THE STANDARDIZATION OF WORKING ESSENTIALS

Lillian Erskine, Investigator of Occupational Disease, New Jersey

Department of Labor, in Collaboration with John Roach, Chief of the

Bureau of Hygiene and Sanitation, New Jersey Deqartment of Labor.

RECOMMENDED STANDARD PRACTICE ON MEDICAL SUPER-

VISION IN DETROIT PLANTS....

Report of a Committee of the Detroit Executives' Club.

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THE WORK AND SERVICE OF THE FACTORY NURSE IN MANU-

FACTURING PLANTS..

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Nathalie C. Rudd.

PERSONNEL AND MEDICAL AUDIT.....

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F. E. Weakly, Manager, Department of Efficiency, Montgomery Ward

and Company of Chicago.

PLANNING PROMOTION FOR EMPLOYES AND ITS EFFECT IN

REDUCING LABOR TURNOVER...

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Philip J. Reilly, Employment Manager, Dennison Manufacturing

Company.

THE REDUCTION OF ABSENCES AND LATENESS IN INDUSTRY 140

John S. Keir, Instructor in Industry, Wharton School of Finance and

Commerce, University of Pennsylvania.

CONCLUSIONS FROM A SURVEY OF OVER FIVE HUNDRED

EMPLOYES' BENEFIT ASSOCIATIONS......

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W. L. Chandler, Dodge Manufacturing Company, Mishawaka, Indiana.

A. J. Portenar, Brooklyn Public Employment Bureau, New York State

Department of Labor.

THE MECHANISM OF MIND...

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Simon N. Patten, University of Pennsylvania.

CAUSES OF "TURNOVER” AMONG COLLEGE FACULTIES...... 216

Hugo Diemer, B. A., M. E., Professor of Industrial Engineering,

Pennsylvania State College; Formerly Superintendent, National

Motor Vehicle Company; Production Manager, Goodman Manu-

facturing Company, and Consulting Engineer.

BOOK DEPARTMENT..

INDEX..

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BOOK DEPARTMENT

THE BUSINESS MAN'S LIBRARY

BARNETT and MCCABE-Mediation, Investigation and Arbitration in In-

dustrial Disputes (J. T. Young).

230

BROWN-Principles of Commerce (T. W. Van Metre).

232

COMPTON-The Organization of The Lumber Industry (M. Keir)

230

COTTER-The Authentic History of The United States Steel Corporation

(M. Keir).

231

DROEGE-Passenger Terminals and Trains (T. W. Van Metre).

DUDLEY-Finance and Life Insurance (B. D. Mudgett)...

232

231

FILSINGER-Exporting to Latin America (R. Patchin).

227

JONES-The Administration of Industrial Enterprises (M. Keir)

MOULTON-Principles of Money and Banking (T. Conway, Jr.)

229

227

PHELPS-Selected Articles on the American Merchant Marine (G. G. Hueb-

ner).....

233

PHELPS Selected Articles on the Government Ownership of Railroads, revised.

(G. G. Huebner). . . . .

233

PHILLIPS-Readings in Money and Banking (T. Conway, Jr.).

SCOVELL-Cost Accounting and Burden Application (S. Bell).

SHAW-An Approach to Business Problems (M. Keir) . . . .

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U. S. FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION-Report on Cooperation in American

Export Trade (W. E. Warrington). . .

229

WEBNER-Factory Accounting (R. B. Kester).

226

ECONOMICS

FETTER-Economics (W. I. King). ..

GIRAULT-The Colonial Tariff Policy of France (R. S. MacElwee).

JUGLAR-A Brief History of Panics 3rd ed. (E. M. Patterson). .

POLITICAL SCIENCE

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BARKER-The Foundations of Germany (C. G. Fenwick)..

DAVIS-Elements of International Law, revised (D. G. Munro).

GIBBONS-The New Map of Africa (C. L. Jones)..

235

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236

HOLDICH-Political Frontiers and Boundary Making (C. L. Jones).

MATHEWS-Principles of American State Administration (J. T. Young).

PHILLIPSON-Termination of War and Treaties of Peace (J. W. Garner)....

VALDÉS-Pan América y el Problema de la Defensa Naval de Chile (D. G.

Munro)..

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SOCIOLOGY

KELSEY-Physical Basis of Society (E. A. Ross).....

240

LE BON-The Psychology of the Great War (J. P. Lichtenberger).

MINER-Slavery of Prostitution (H. Glenn).

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