April 9, 1976 17
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Plan Is Proposed to Solve Israel's Productivity Problem
ISRAEL
STAMPS
NEW YORK = At the
Technion — Israel Institute
of Technology, two indus-
trial and management engi-
neering faculty members
have worked out a plan
which they believe may
serve as a practical guide to
higher productivity. Prof.
Ezey Dar-El, who emi-
grated from Australia sev-
eral years ago, and Larry
Young, a recent immigrant
from the United States, sur-
veyed five plants, each em-
ploying some 300 to 500
workers, in an attempt to
establish why productivity
is so low.
In an interview with the
Jerusalem Post, Young
noted that in the past, two
major attempts to raise
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As for workers' participa-
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ers' representative to the
management simply did not
give the men at the bench a
say in anything, or even a
feeling of participation..
The two experts have, as
a result of their study,
worked out a plan for rais-
ing productivity, which is
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pertise, the Japanese
"Quality Circles," which
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ferred an industry re-
nowned for its shabby and
inferior products into one
that has become a trade
mark for quality and pre-
cision.
"We propose worker level
participation as the solution
to work problems," Young
said. "To make this practic-
able we propose giving se-
lect workers short courses
in the basic principles of
industrial engineering and
methods analysis. These
men will then be called upon
to aid management in im-
plementing changes de-
signed to raise productiv-
ity."
Young stressed that he
and Prof. Dar-El intended
to introduce their plan grad-
ually and only in plants
where management and
workers both agree to try it.
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,Society Issues
Kollek Medal
NEW YORK — Jerusa-
lem's Mayor Teddy Kollek
was honored by the Judaic
Heritage Society in its re-
cording of the Medallic His-
tory of the Jewish People in
Our Time.
The Teddy Kollek Medal
is sculpted by Mico Kauf-
man, noted American sculp-
tor, whose recent work in-
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idential inauguration
medal. The medal portrays
Kollek as Mayor of Jerusa-
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arms in the background —
the significance of Jerusa-
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name.
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Day War in 1967. Dynamic
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ambassador of the Jewish
people at home and abroad.
Born Vienna, 1911."
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productivity can be at-
tempted only in those plants
whose orders have not been
affected by a shrinking
market, and are not in the
process of dismissing work-
ers.
The proposal is to award
workers a sum of money
equalling the value of one
year's improved profits ex-
pected from the changes in-
troduced to improve produc-
tion. They suggest that half
the sum be paid the workers
immediately when the
changes are effected, with
the balance to be paid two to
three months later after the
new system has proved it-
selland the workers hav
proved their good will.
At the same time, Young
and Prof. Dar-El propose
that a ceiling be set for
premiums, which will rec-
ognize the physical limits
of output.
Prof. Dar-El believes that
productivity can and should
be improved in the service
industries, too. He holds
that there is no facet of
work that cannot be mea-
sured in terms of productivaL
ity. But the Israeli system'
of trying to solve the "con-
cealed unemployment" in
the services by freezing
budgets, will only lead to
frustration and even lower
production.
He believes that one way
•of tackling - the problem
would be to freeze the num-
ber of jobs in the services
but enable the employes to
improve their pay through
higher productivity. But, for
a start, service productivity
must be measured in order
for goals to be set.
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