Exam 10: Human Resources, Job Design, and Work Measurement

All of the following are advantages of predetermined time standards except

What is methods analysis?

An operations chart, or right-hand/left-hand chart, points out wasted motion and idle time.

A manufacturing plant is trying to determine standard production per day for an incentive program. Suppose that the incentive program will pay $1 per unit produced above standard rates. A worker is timed at 280 seconds per unit, with a performance rating of 105%. The plant has an allowance factor of 13%. If he produces 100 units in an 8 hour shift, how much would he receive under the incentive plan?

A time study of a certain service task found an average time of 15 minutes, with a standard sample large enough that we are 95% confident that standard time is within 5% of its true value?

The two extremes of employment stability policy are "follow demand exactly" and "keep demand constant."

A manager who is conducting a time study now needs an accuracy of ±0.1 minutes, rather than ±0.2 minutes as in the past. Because of this change in accuracy, the adequate sample size becomes

Normal time for a stopwatch study is equal to

The goal of a human resource strategy is to manage labor and design jobs so people are effectively and efficiently utilized.

__________ estimates, by sampling, the percent of time that a worker spends on various tasks.

In a large aerospace company, it has been discovered that some insulators have been damaged. A methods specialist is sent out to follow the insulators through the production and storage processes and to try to find out where in the process they are damaged. The specialist should use

Timing a sample of a worker's performance and using it to set a standard is the work measurement technique of

How do we establish a fair day's work?

The allowances that convert normal time to standard time have three components: personal time allowances, delay allowances, and fatigue allowances.

Methods analysis focuses on

The allowance factor that increases normal time to standard time compensates for inadequate worker training and lack of worker dexterity.

A technique for estimating the proportion of time a worker spends on various activities is

Self-directed teams may mean having no supervision on the factory floor.

Most unions do not accept the use of predetermined time standards.

In work measurement, personal time allowances are often established in the range of