The individual effort method of increasing the reward of the wage-earner includes all that is best in other methods, and attempts to exclude all that is objectionable. Its good points are summed up as follows

The standard time set is reasonable and one that can be reached without extraordinary effort, is in fact such time as a good foreman would demand. | An extra reward of one-fifth of the regular wages for the operation is given to whoever makes standard time. | Extra compensation above the hourly rate is paid even if standard time is not reached, although this extra compensation diminishes in percentage above standard time-and-a-half. | If longer than time-and-a-half is taken, the regulai day rate is paid. Of this, the wage-earner is also sure. | Standard time is carefully determined by observation and experiment, and is only changed when conditions change. | The arrangement is one of mutual benefit to both parties — of increased earning to the worker, of increased saving to the employer. | The employer loses more than the wage-earner if schedules do not encourage co-operation. | The wage-earner, working on a schedule, becomes in a large degree his own foreman. | The wage-earner determines his own earning power, and by co-operating to cut out wastes increases his own value.