Which one of the following actions is LEAST likely to increase labor productivity by an amount that is large enough to result in lower labor costs per pair produced at a particular plant?
a. Increasing the percentage of total compensation that comes from piecework incentives (up to a maximum of 50%)
b. Actions to reduce the number of models/styles produced at a plant from 350 to 150 (workers are more and can assemble more pairs annually when assembling a smaller number of models)
c. Increasing total compensation per employee $ per year to a level that is slightly above the industry average
d. Spending for best practices training for plant workers but not spending so much as to result in big overspending
e. Increasing worker base pay by the allowed maximum of 15% each and every year until the company's base pay compensation per employee exceeds the total compensation per employee $ per year of all other com