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OSCM 373 Exam 2 Reviewemphasizes a systematic, logical approach to job design - correct answer ✔✔efficiency school
emphasizes satisfaction of needs and wants of employees - correct answer ✔✔behavioral school
give worker larger portion of total task, horizontal loading - correct answer ✔✔job enlargement
workers periodically exchange jobs - correct answer ✔✔job rotation
increased responsibility of planning and coordinating tasks, vertical loading - correct answer ✔✔job
enrichment
work that focuses on some aspect of a product or service - correct answer ✔✔specialization
analyze how job gets done, moves from general to specific details
(workplace arrangement, movement of workers and materials) - correct answer ✔✔methods analysis
charts examine overall operation sequence, focus on operator movements or material flow, identify non-
productive parts
(delays, temporary storage, travel distance) - correct answer ✔✔job flow process charts
determines portions of work cycle during which an operator or equipments is busy or idle
highlights machine/worker utilization - correct answer ✔✔job worker-machine charts
concerned with how long it should take to complete a job, not concerned with job content or how it's
completed (considered a given) - correct answer ✔✔work measurement
, amount of time it should take a worker to complete a specified task, at a sustainable rate, with given
materials/tools/equipment, raw material input, and workplace arrangement - correct answer
✔✔standard time
derived from firm's own historical time study data, file of accumulated elemental times common to
many jobs collected, eliminates need for new studies - correct answer ✔✔standard elemental times
use of pubulished data on standard elemental times, methods-time-measurement table (MTM) used to
obtain appropriate times after dividing job into basic elements - correct answer ✔✔predetermined time
standards
tables based on extensive research of basic elemental motions and times
analysts measure distances, rate difficulties, and use table as reference - correct answer ✔✔methods-
time-measurement table
technique for estimating proportion of time that worker or machine spends on activities an idle time, no
timing or continuous observation required, brief observations at random intervals - correct answer
✔✔work sampling
percentage of workers time that involves unavoidable delays or proportion of time machine is idle -
correct answer ✔✔ratio-delay studies
percentage of time spent doing various tasks - correct answer ✔✔analysis of repetitive jobs
average recorded times
(sum recorded times/n) - correct answer ✔✔observed time (OT)
OT adjusted for worker performance, assumes single performance rating made for entire job
(OTxPR) - correct answer ✔✔normal time (NT)
NT multiplied by allowance factor
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