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Competition / Incentive. Methods used to enfo R ce the Five Year Plans and the effects on the workers. Alexei Stakhan o v. 30 August 1935 – Alexei Stakhanov P neumatic -pick operator C ut 102 tons of coal - 16x more than an average miner. G ained rewards and publicity.
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Competition / Incentive Methods used to enfoRce the Five Year Plans and the effects on the workers.
Alexei Stakhanov • 30 August 1935 – Alexei Stakhanov • Pneumatic-pick operator • Cut 102 tons of coal -16x more than an average miner. • Gained rewards and publicity. • Method by Konstantin Pretrov • Give incentive to the other miners to beat Stakhanov’s record.
Stakhanovite Movement • With Stakhanovproclaimed as the Russian Hercules • His picture on the front page of Pravda • Record mania swept through country • Many workers trying to surpass his record • By December 1935, the records achieved in heavy industry filled two volumes.
PositivE Impacts of competitiveness on the Five year plans • Record mania sweeping through the USSR due to the possible rewards = output from heavy industry increased hugely. • Stakhanovitemovement used as a way to ensure that management kept producing new methods to increase production rates
Negative Impacts of competitiveness on the five year pLans • Sudden increase in production may have benefitted the economy • Placed huge strain on the managerial elements of the Russian industries Some of the problems facing managers were: • Targets and increased labour norms • Wage incentives and the need to breakeven • Labour shortage and tensions between the management and the workers that wanted to be Stakhanovites, and those that resented the shift in favour and increased production norms
Competition and how it affected the Five year pLans and the workers • Many workers were inspired to become Stakhanovites • Led to huge problems within the management sector+ tensions between managers & employees and between employees and those demanding to be Stakhanovites. • Foreign trade had hit a rock bottom • Military spending getting large amount of the few raw materials • Meant that managers crumpled under the pressure and lied or even turned to bribery or corruption to satisfy the demands from above • Stakhanovitemovement had helped encourage the common worker • Strain and pressure resulted in socio-economical problems that were hard to solve.
