ABSTRACT
High-motivation efficiency control must be carried out with careful consideration to supporting and rewarding each employee's efforts. No matter how many interesting ideas are presented for improving factory productivity, factory employees are not likely to get behind any idea that does not support and recognize their own contributions. Many factories rely on indirect efficiency control reporting, such as the amount of profit per employee, which ties efficiency to the sales prices of products. Such factories are clearly level-one factories when it comes to efficiency control. A general method that operators can relate to is better than a more precise method that they find irrelevant, because the former can help raise operators' concerns about efficiency and spark their interest in making improvements. Before attempting efficiency control, determine a standard time for each process. The method used to calculate the value of labor sometimes can be used to calculate the labor time for each process as well.
