BU385 Chapter 7: Operations - Chapter 7
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Job design specifying the content and method of a job. Specializaion focusing on the job to a narrow scope. Job enlargement giving a worker a larger porion of the total task. Job enrichment increasing responsibility for planning and coordinaion. Self-directed teams groups who perform the same funcion and are empowered to make certain decisions and changes in their work. Methods analysis breaks down the job into a sequence of tasks and elements and improves it. Process chart chart used to examine the overall sequence of an operaion by focusing on movements of the operator or low of material. Worker-machine chart used to determine porions of a work cycle during which an operator and equipment are busy or idle. Moion study systemaic study of the human moions used to perform an operaion or task. Moion economy principles guidelines for designing moion-eicient work procedures.
