FARE 3310 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Job Enrichment, User Interface, Job Rotation

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Food, Agricultural and Resource Economics
• Course: FARE 3310
• Professor: Predrag Rajsic

Document Summary

Objective is too manage labour and design jobs so people are effectively and efficiently utilized: given constraints, make sure the quality of life while working is sufficient. Constraints: seasonality, technology, equipment, location, layout decisions. Job classifications and work rules: who does what and when, common with union pressure, have to be flexible and responsive to changes. Job design: specifies the tasks that constitute a job for an individual or a groups. Job enlargement add tasks needing a similar skills (vertical) Job rotation- move from one specialized job to another (vertical) Ergonomics and the work environment: study of the human interface with the environment and machines. Major issues: operator input to machines (ex. carpel tunnel), feedback to operators, work environment (ex. lighting, noise, temp) The visual workplace: uses low-cost visual devices to share information quickly and accurately, can eliminate non-value added activities by making standards, problems, and abnormalities visual. Decide how many times to measure the task.