Therefore the amount available to be distributed to the employees at the end of the year would be 35% of $118,000 or $41,300.
The Scanlon plan assumes that the payroll costs are highly variable. This was likely true in the 1930s when the plan was originally proposed. However, in today’s conditions many labor costs are essentially fixed and may be very difficult to change in response to short-term fluctuations in demand. The plan also assumes labor costs decrease over time if labor efficiency increases, which may not be true in a highly unionized setting. The plan also assumes that declines in labor costs are due to labor efficiencies, which may not be true. The company may be experiencing layoffs or production downturns.
The Scanlon plan assumes employee participation and group effort. Therefore, a reasonable proposal is to divide the distribution equally among the employees covered by the plan. An alternative in a small group, where all the employees know each other, would be to have the employees vote on the distribution in a private ballot by ranking each member’s contribution.
Under this approach, the base ratio for the following year would be 0.055, the ratio experienced in quarter 1. This is called the ratchet effect. Its result is to quickly tax away any innovations that the employees develop so that they experience no long-term benefit from their innovations. This quickly dampens enthusiasm for, and the motivational effect of, the plan. To avoid this, the base ratio should hold over a longer period of time, perhaps three years, unless there is a system change, such as new equipment, that creates a new standard for the base ratio.
- Business Case
Chemco International
Kayleeyoung : a controller who have graduated from MBA school and after that ,she came into this company. This company has a problem concerned with management control systems in manufacturing and divisions.
1) poor cost reports and no comparative reports between post and exante of business activities.
2) This system only provide actual manufacturing process itself and do not provide any insight into pre and postmanufacturing costs,such as the cost of developing products or disposing of toxic waste. She want to know all costs related to the life cycle of his products. She want to study how target costing and Kaizen costing can be applied into her compan