Exam 23: Job Design Work Measurement

A time study was made of a job to develop new time standards.A worker was observed for 30 minutes.During that time,40 units were produced.The analyst rated the worker as performing at a 120 percent performance rate.What is the normal time for this task?

Which of the following is not a reason that time standards are necessary?

If the normal time for a job is 30 minutes and the allowances for the job include 10 percent for personal needs,5 percent for unavoidable work delays and 3 percent for work fatigue,which one of the following comes closest to the standard time for this job?

One objective in managing people is to make them work as hard as possible so that the value of their output will exceed the cost of employing them.

Empowerment refers to workers being given authority to call a supervisor to stop a production line if there is a quality problem.

The sociotechnical systems approach to job design attempts to develop jobs that adjust the needs of the production process technology to the needs of the worker and work group.

If the normal time for a job is 20 minutes and the allowances for the job are 25 percent of normal time,which one of the following comes closest to the standard time for this job?

When the textbook presented the topic of job design decisions,the "what" of these decisions concerned the tasks to be performed.

An objective of job design could be to develop a logically integrated pattern of work activities for individuals or work groups.Which of the following is not a job design principle relevant to this objective?

Methods Time Management (MTM)and Most Work Measurement System (MOST)are proprietary examples of Predetermined Motion-Time Data Systems (PMTS).

A coffee break can be a reason workers should be given some extra time to do their jobs.

Which of the following is not a reason to choose time study rather than work sampling?

Leading organizations use job enrichment and sociotechnical systems to improve the quality of jobs.

Which of the following is not an advantage of work sampling over time study?

The fundamental purpose of work measurement is to set time standards.

One of the major conclusions in job design is that task variety and skill variety are important job design principles.

An advantage that work sampling has over time study is:

Extensive use of temporary workers can have an effect on job design.

One of the disadvantages of adopting specialization of labor as a job design principle for labor is boredom.

In job design,an attempt must be made to provide an optimal variety of tasks within each job.