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

An operation in a television factory has an average observed time of 6 minutes.The performance rating of the worker timed was estimated at 90%.Practice in this department is to provide 8% for allowances. a.Find the normal time for the operation. b.Compute the standard time for the operation. c.Recompute the standard time if an additional fatigue allowance of 8% is factored in.

In time studies,personal time allowances are often established in which of the following ranges?

"Visual workplace" is a term coined by Hawthorne,and it refers to the need for proper lighting at employee workstations.

Therbligs:

Four of the components of job design are:

Ergonomics is a branch of economics that deals with costs of scheduling workers.

What is mutual trust? What is its link to a firm's human resource strategy?

________ are drawings used to analyze movement of people or material.

Technology,location,and layout decisions are all possible constraints on human resource strategy.

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

Personal and fatigue allowances can include amounts for the effects of lighting,heat and humidity,and noise.

The 50th percentile female is 62.9 inches tall and should have a chair:

As tool using animals,human performance is affected by:

Hackman and Oldham's five desirable characteristics of job design include job significance and autonomy.

An initial analysis of a laboratory activity resulted in the first table below.After this analysis,the managers determined that their element descriptions were not as accurate as they should have been-they had left out an element,underestimated a distance,and understated the need for accuracy.They revised the table of element data,which appears in the second table. Calculate the total standard minutes for the original activity "pouring tube specimen." Calculate the total standard minutes for the revised activity "pouring tube specimen." What is the increase,in seconds,from the first version to the second? (Round calculations to four decimal places. )

A work sampling study requires an acceptable error level of 10 percent and z = 2 for 95.45 percent confidence.The adequate sample size is ________ if the sample proportion is thought to be as large as 50 percent,but ________ if the sample proportion is thought to be about 20 percent.

List the eight steps used to develop a time study-based labor standard.

Identify the five components of job design.

Among the advantages of predetermined time standards are all EXCEPT which of the following?

Activity charts help analyze: