Operations Management
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To determine: The main uses of time study information.
Introduction: The amount of the dependency on human effort by an organization in terms of achieving its goals is given by the work design. It is directly linked to the productivity of an organization where good work design helps in achieving high productivity.
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Operations Management
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- Who uses and how do they use the effects of job measurements in an organisation?arrow_forwardIf an average worker could be identified, what advantage would there be in using that person for a time studyarrow_forward(a) What is a technique for estimating the percent of the time a worker spends on various tasks? A) stopwatch time study B) simultaneous motion study C) work sampling D) standard elemental (historical) times E) predetermined (published) time standards (b) A bank manager wants to determine the percent of the time the bank's tellers are working and idle. He decides to use work sampling, and his initial estimate is that the tellers are idle 22% of the time. Approximately how many observations should be taken to be 95% confident that the results will not be more than 5% away from the true result? A)6 B) 16 C) 203 D) 264 E) 246arrow_forward
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