GMS 401 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Human Factors And Ergonomics, Standard Deviation, Job Enrichment
10 Oct 2017
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Lo1: briefly describe efficiency and behavioural approaches to job design. Job design: specifying the content and method of a job. Job enlargement: means giving a worker a larger portion of the total task. Job enrichment: increasing responsibility for planning and coordination: self-directed teams: groups who perform the same function and are empowered to make certain decisions and changes in their work. Lo2: explain the purpose of methods analysis and describe how methods analysis is performed. L03: discuss the impact of working conditions on job design. For more strenuous jobs, the smaller the comfort band. Ventilation: some factories (ex: lumber mills or any grinding operations) create a lot of dust and some other gases and foul odors, large fans and air conditioning systems are commonly used to exchange and recondition the air. Illumination: the more detailed the work, the higher level of illumination needed for adequate performance.
