Hanging out/Soldering
Soldering as it is referred to by Americans and hanging out by the British is the greatest evil commonly faced universally in industrial establishment. Soldering which simply means under working, is the tactics used by workers whereby they deliberately work at a slow pace so they can avoid a full days’ work load. Soldering has a strong and direct effect on the wages, prosperity and life of every worker and consequentially affects the prosperity of the business organization at large. The elimination of soldering in most business organizations would lead to the solution of a whole lot of problems both for the organization and the nation at large. These problems that are most likely to be resolved are idle time, unemployment and poverty.
The highest level of prosperity in an organization can only be achieved if every worker determines to put in his or her maximum efforts/abilities into each day’s work load. This is rather not the case in most of today’s organization. Workers work below their ability and are most times very inefficient. The reason for this condition have been summarized into three (3) points
• Workers believe that a material increase in the output of each worker or each machine in the production process will in the end lead to displacing a large number of workers out of work because a few workers can do the job. Workers so much believe in this fallacy that if they put in their efforts and achieve a day’s work then organizations would see no need for a large number of workers and will in the end throw a lot of them out of work. But these workers do not understand that if they put in their best in achieving a days’ work, they would be able increase productivity and increase in productivity leads to a reduction in production cost and instead of displacing men out of work they in the end employ more workers because reduction in