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    "ocrText": "- 37 -\nrespective Trade Unions. Members of each Team were selected to represent interests ranging from owners\nthrough all management and supervisory levels to labor. Each team was also structured to include\nrepresentatives of several firms.\n5.07\nConditions for selection included requirements that members of the Team were to take full\nnotes of their visits, observations, and plant findings and collect documentation including drawings,\nphotographs, equipment, and factory data on production, costs, marketing, labor relations and training. The\nTeams were required to prepare a comprehensive printed report for the use of other firms and marketing\nentities in their industry; and subsequently to disseminate their productivity findings through visits to other\nplants back home and through their participation in industry-wide and regional seminars, conferences, and\ntraining sessions.\n5.08\nBoth legislative members and senior governmental administrative officials also formed\nProductivity Teams and some officials were included in sector Teams. Their purpose was to observe the effects\nof governmental actions in furthering productivity. These Teams also functioned to provide a better\nunderstanding of Productivity restructuring at the highest policy and governmental levels.²⁴\n5.09\nTypical Productivity Team member composition may be gathered from some of the following\nUnited Kingdom teams which visited U.S. plants:\nSteel Founding: 16 members from ten plants and one association; including two Directors, a Chief\nCost Accountant, a Methods and Time Study Engineer, a Chief Methods Engineer, a Foreman\nMolder, two Foundry Managers, a Technical Director, a Charge Hand Molder, a Dresser, three\nMolders, a Pattern Maker and a Chief Foundry Estimator\nRayon Weaving: 15 members from ten plants; including five Managers, four overlookers, four\nweavers, one weaver teacher, and one Time and Motion Study Engineer²⁶/\n5.10\nBy 1958 some 950 Productivity Team reports were published with a circulation of over\n1,000,000 copies of which over half were in industrial sectors. Publications included over 500 Team reports\nin France, 100 in the Netherlands, 209 in the United Kingdom and 100 in Germany.22/ These highly technical\nreports incorporating observation and study by thousands of manufacturing, agricultural, marketing, and\n23/\nSee the following typical early Team reports: AACP, Footwear Productivity Team Report, London,\n1951, and French Inter-Ministerial Commission, Premier Mission aux Etats-Unis de la Construction\nElectrique, Paris, 1950.\n24/\nSee the French Parliament Productivity Team report in Productivité Française, Issue No. 12, Paris.\n25/\nAACP, Steel Founding, London, 1949.\n26/\nAACP, Rayon Weaving, London, 1949.\n27/\nICA, European Productivity and Technical Assistance Programs, Paris, 1958.\nSTRHMANZ LIBRARY\nHAVE"
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