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Manpower and Technological Change in Czechoslovakia
Author(s) -
STIEBER JACK,
PAUKERT LIBA
Publication year - 1968
Publication title -
industrial relations: a journal of economy and society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.61
H-Index - 57
eISSN - 1468-232X
pISSN - 0019-8676
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-232x.1968.tb00470.x
Subject(s) - pace , incentive , economic shortage , technological change , directive , czech , economic policy , blame , business , economics , political science , market economy , macroeconomics , geography , government (linguistics) , computer science , psychology , linguistics , philosophy , geodesy , psychiatry , programming language
Summary In spite of a continuing manpower shortage since World War II, the pace of technological progress and the introduction of labor‐saving technology in Czechoslovakia has been disappointingly slow. The blame for this state of affairs has been ascribed by Czech economists to the system of directive central planning used in Czechoslovakia and other East European countries. Because of the emphasis on meeting and surpassing output targets without regard to quality or need for the end products, the system gave enterprises no incentive to introduce new technology, reduce manpower requirements, or turn out a better grade