GMS 401 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Learning Curve, Unit, Binary Logarithm

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Global Management Studies
• Course: GMS 401
• Professor: Payman Ahi

Document Summary

Lecture 6: learning curves (not on test 1) Basic model for the typical scientific management approach in designing jobs. Breaking job to set of tasks breaking each task into sequence of elements breaking each element into a sequence of motions. Human performance improves when activities are done repetitively. Time required to perform a task decreases with increasing repetitions. Learning curves is the premise that people and organizations get better at their tasks as the tasks are repeated. The effects of using a learning curve are: time per repetition decreases as the number of repetition increases, takes less time to complete each additional unit a firm produces, these are all considered improvements. Increasing skills, reducing rework, etc: pre-production factors. Amount of effort spent prior to the start of the work (ex appropriate instructions, guidelines, etc. : changes after production has begun.