Upgrade to remove ads
Busy. Please wait.
Log in with Clever
or

show password
Forgot Password?

Don't have an account?  Sign up 
Sign up using Clever
or

Username is available taken
show password


Make sure to remember your password. If you forget it there is no way for StudyStack to send you a reset link. You would need to create a new account.
Your email address is only used to allow you to reset your password. See our Privacy Policy and Terms of Service.


Already a StudyStack user? Log In

Reset Password
Enter the associated with your account, and we'll email you a link to reset your password.

Ch. 11

        Help!  

Question
Answer
Job Design   Specifies the contents of the job.  
🗑
Technical Feasibility   The job must be physically and mentally doable.  
🗑
Economic Feasibility   Cost of the job should be less than the value it adds.  
🗑
Behavioral Feasibility   Degree to which the job is intrinsically satisfying to the employee.  
🗑
Specialization   The breadth of the job design.  
🗑
Job Enlargement   A horizontal expansion of the job through increasing the scope of the work assigned.  
🗑
Job Enrichment   A vertical expansion of the job through increased worker responsibility.  
🗑
Job Rotation   Workers shift to different jobs to increase understanding of the total process.  
🗑
Problem-Solving Teams   Small groups of employees and supervisors trained in problem-solving techniques who meet to identify, analyze, and propose solutions to workplace problems.  
🗑
Special-Purpose Teams   Highly focused, short-term teams addressing issues important to management and labor.  
🗑
Self-Directed Teams   Integrated teams empowered to control portions of their process.  
🗑
Alternative workplace   Brings work to the worker rather than the worker to the workplace.  
🗑
Method Analysis   Process concerned with the detailed process for doing a particular job.  
🗑
Work Measurement   Determines how long it should take to do a job.  
🗑
Standard Time   The length of time it should take a qualified worker using appropriate process and tools to complete a specific job, allowing time for personal fatigue and unavoidable delays.  
🗑
Time Study   A technique for developing a standard time based on actual observations of the operator.  
🗑
Mean Observed Time   The average of the observation times for each of the work elements.  
🗑
Performance Rating Factor   A subjective estimate of a worker's pace relative to a normal work pace.  
🗑
Frequency of Occurrence   How often the work element must be done each cycle.  
🗑
Normal Time   The mean observed time multiplied by the performance rating factor by the frequency of occurrence.  
🗑
Allowance Factor   The amount of time the analyst allows for personal time, fatigue, and unavoidable delays.  
🗑
Elemental Time Data   Establishes standards based on previously completed time studies, stored in an organization's database.  
🗑
Predetermined Time Data   Published database of elemental time data used for establishing standard times.  
🗑
Work Sampling   A technique for estimating the proportion of time a worker spends on a particular activity.  
🗑
Time-Based Compensation Systems   Pay based on the number of hours worked.  
🗑
Output-based (incentive) Systems   Pay based on the number of units completed.  
🗑


   

Review the information in the table. When you are ready to quiz yourself you can hide individual columns or the entire table. Then you can click on the empty cells to reveal the answer. Try to recall what will be displayed before clicking the empty cell.
 
To hide a column, click on the column name.
 
To hide the entire table, click on the "Hide All" button.
 
You may also shuffle the rows of the table by clicking on the "Shuffle" button.
 
Or sort by any of the columns using the down arrow next to any column heading.
If you know all the data on any row, you can temporarily remove it by tapping the trash can to the right of the row.

 
Embed Code - If you would like this activity on your web page, copy the script below and paste it into your web page.

  Normal Size     Small Size show me how
Created by: bradbrown1122
Popular Management sets