DESIGN OF WORK SYSTEM Flashcards
- Simplifies training
- High productivity
- Low wage costs
Specialization in Business : Advantages
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- Low education and skill
requirements - Minimum responsibilities
- Little mental effort needed
Specialization in Business : Advantages
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- Difficult to motivate quality
- Worker dissatisfaction, possibly in absenteeism, high turnover,disruptive tactics, poor attention to quality
Specialization in Business : DisAdvantages
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- Monotonous work
- Limited opportunities for advancement
- Little control over work
- Little opportunity for self-fulfillment
Specialization in Business : DisAdvantages
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Giving a worker a larger portion of the total task by horizontal loading
Job Enlargement
Increasing responsibility for planning and Coordination tasks, by virtual loading
Job Enrichment
Influence productivity and employee- management
relations
Trust
Workers periodically exchange jobs
Job Rotation
- Influence quality and productivity
- Contributes to work environment
Motivation
- Higher quality
- Higher productivity
- Greater worker satisfaction
Benefits of Teams
Groups of empowered to make certain changes in
their work process
Self-directed Teams
is the systematic study of the human motions used to perform an operation
Motion Study
guidelines for designing motion-effecient work procedures
Motion Study principles
basic elemental motions into which a job can be broken down
Analysis of therbligs
use of motion pictures and slow motion to study motions that
otherwise would be too rapid to analyze
Micromotion study
Basic elemental motions that make up a job
Therbligs
Determining how long it
should take to do a job
Work measurement
The amount of time
it should take a qualified worker to complete a specific task, working at a sustainable rate, using given methods, tool and equipment, raw materials and work place arrangement.
Standard Time:
Development of a time
standard based on observations of one worker
taken over a number of cycles
Stopwatch Time Study
Time standards derived from a firm’s historical data.
Standard Elemental Times
Published data based
on extensive research to determine standard
elemental times.
Predetermined Time Standards :
Technique for estimating the proportion of time
that a worker or a machine depends on various
activities and idle time
Work Sampling
Compensation based on time an employee has worked during a pay period
Time Based System
Compensation based on the amount of output an employee
produces during a pay period
Output - Based (Incentive) System
