Exam 8: Human Resources

Describe factors that must be considered in good job design.

Determining worker capabilities and responsibilities for a job is known as worker analysis.

___ involves the horizontal movement or a worker between two or more jobs.

Briefly discuss the advantages and disadvantages of using learning curves.

Advantages of empowerment include all of the following except

The motivation for companies to create alternative workplaces is primarily financial.

The elimination of racism, sexism, cultural indifference, and religious intolerance cannot be mandated by higher management or managed by financial incentives.

Under normal circumstances and conditions, the time required by an "average" worker to perform a job once is referred to as the cycle time.

Scientific Management involves breaking down jobs into elemental activities.

The allowance factor is a percentage increase in the normal cycle time.

___ illustrate the improvement rate of workers as a job is repeated.

A process flowchart is a graph showing the steps of a job or how a set of jobs fit together into the overall flow of the production process.

Studies have shown that the success of Japanese companies is due to cultural factors.

An alternative workplace is a combination of nontraditional work locations and practices that supplements or replaces the traditional office.

List the three categories of the principles of motion study and give two rules for each category.

Explain different methods of employee compensation.

___ refers to the physical location of a job and the requisite surroundings.

How has the trend toward quality management changed the way companies view their employees?

Flexibility has traditionally been used as a measure of job efficiency.

A worker-machine chart determines whether worker and machine tasks are strategically aligned.