Results of Improved Working Methods.

Suppose the employer wishes to increase the output per working unit, how is he to stimulate Labour? The most general way is to offer increased wages on the understanding that the worker uses more energy. The better way, however, is to bring about better working methods—to improve the technique of the job—and to offer, as an inducement to those who will carry out the new technique, a rise in wages. The crux of the matter lies in the statement that he does not demand harder work or a greater expenditure of energy from his employees. There is the possibility, too, that a combination of both means an increase of effort and a new technique of work with an increase of wages, may be evolved.