GMS 401 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Computer Monitor, Mechanical Advantage, Job Enrichment

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Global Management Studies
• Course: GMS 401
• Professor: Wally Whistance- Smith

Document Summary

Briely describe eiciency and behaviour approaches to job design. Explain the purpose of methods analysis and describe how methods analysis is performed. Discuss the impact of working conditions on job design. Ergonomics: fitting the job to the worker"s capability and size. Job design: specifying the content and method of a job. Job enlargement: giving a worker a larger portion of the total task. Job enrichment: increasing responsibility for planning and coordination. Methods analysis: breaks down the job in a sequence of tasks and elements and improves it. Micro motion study: use of motion pictures and slow motion to study motions otherwise would be too rapid to analyze. Motion economy principles: guidelines for designing motion-eicient work procedures. Motion study: systemic study of the human motions used to perform an operation or task. Output based (piece rate pay): compensation based on the amount of output an employee produces. Predetermined element times: published data based on extensive research on element times.