Re-Designing Acetate

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This paper is a brief review of the pressing problems confronting the Acetate chemical-mix department in the wake of a dramatic technological revamping. The writer points out that as a result of these changes, there has been a noticeable flagging in the productivity of workers as the company finds itself with a department operating well below productive capacity. This brief paper argues that efforts must be made to re-establish the old conviviality for the sake of improved productivity.

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"The following paper is a very brief overview of what can be done to facilitate improved productivity and morale in the Acetate department. To begin with, prior to the great changes, the Acetate Department's technology was decidedly low tech, emphasizing as it did manual labour - the men would physically off-load the material from the trucks and then transport it up the elevators to the third floor storage site - and the treating of the mixes very much as one would treat the `mixing of a cake'."

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