BUSI 2301 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Job Enrichment, Job Rotation, Scientific Management
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Efficiency school: a refinement of taylor"s scientific management. Systematic logical approach to job design labour cost reduction. For company: simplified training, high productivity, and low wage costs. For worker: monotonous work, limit opportunities, and little control over work. Job enlargement: giving a worker a large portion of task. Job enrichment: increasing responsisiblity for planning and coordination by vertical loading. Benefits of team: fewer managers, high quality, higher productivity, greater worker satisfaction. Groups who perform the same function and are empowered to make certain decisions and changes in their work. Breaks down the job into sequence of task and elements and improves it. Identify the job to studies, discuss the job with operation, and study and document the present method, question the present method and propose a new method. Charts used to examine the overall sequence of an operation by focusing on movements and operator or flow material.
