GMS 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Scientific Management

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Global Management Studies
• Course: GMS 200
• Professor: Amirmohsen Behjat

Document Summary

Work/job design involves specifying the content and methods of work/job. Objectives: productivity, safety, quality of work life. Reminded managers of the complexity of human beings. Job enlargement: giving a worker a larger portion of the total activity by horizontal loading. Job enrichment: increasing employee responsibility for planning, execution and control of tasks, by vertical loading. Breaks down the job into sequence of tasks/elements/motions and improves it. Flow process chart: chart used to examine the sequence of tasks by focusing on movements of the worker or flow of materials. A worker machine process chart: helps to see portions of work cycle during which a worker and equipment are busy or idle. Determine how long it should take to do a job. Chapter 5: stopwatch time study, predetermined element times, work sampling. Standard time the amount of time it should take a qualified worker to complete a specific task.