Day 137 - 19 Jun 95 - Page 59
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2 Q. If you have got what you felt was a poor response on a
3 particular question or questions, would you then act upon
4 it?
5 A. It depends upon your definition of "poor response".
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7 Q. Suppose that a majority of the respondents said positively
8 that they were dissatisfied with their pay increases?
9 A. OK. Let me give you a little bit of a caveat. Pay is
10 something that you have to weigh a little bit in looking at
11 because everyone would like to make more money. I do not
12 know how you feel, Mr. Rampton, but everyone would like to
13 make more money -----
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15 Q. I have never been heard to grumble about that!
16 A. But what you need to look at are the norms and if there
17 is deviation from the norms in a negative sense, then it
18 tells you that you really need to scrutinize your
19 employment quests where we compare our wages and benefits
20 and do a complete analysis to make sure you are doing what
21 you should be doing.
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23 Q. Let just have a look at an example. Turn over to the
24 second page, the first question, which is No. 7 on the
25 sheet, the questionnaire, under "Barometers" -- do you have
26 it ---
27 A. Yes.
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29 Q. -- was: "I am treated fair in relation to race or sex",
30 yes?
31 A. Yes.
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33 Q. The British positive response rate was 84 per cent?
34 A. Yes, I see that.
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36 Q. McDonald's international norm was 88 per cent?
37 A. Yes.
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39 Q. Those who disagreed was seven per cent?
40 A. Yes.
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42 Q. Does a figure on that topic of seven per cent give you
43 cause for concern?
44 A. It would not be a top priority because, frankly, a
45 grading in the 80s in an American election, to put it in
46 the American sense, if a candidate for the presidency gets
47 53 or 54 per cent valid, it is almost considered a
48 landslide in the US. So, if you dealing in numbers in the
49 80 per cent category, you are doing remarkably well.
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51 Q. If you got a response to that question, for example, well,
52 may be 50 per cent or 55 per cent said: "Yes, it is OK",
53 but maybe as many as 25 per cent said: "No, I am not
54 treated fairly on grounds of race or sex", what would you
55 do then?
56 A. I would want to look at the situation deeper.
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58 Q. Termination codes, Mr. Stein: Does the US run a system by
59 which the reason a person gives or is attributed to him for
60 having left is recorded in code form?
