IEN 201 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Work Unit, Exact Sequence, Job Design

• School: University of Miami
• Department: Industrial Engineering
• Course: IEN 201
• Professor: Nina Miville

Document Summary

Work work is an activity in which one exerts physical and mental effort to accomplish a given task or perform a duty. Severs an important economic function in the global world of commerce. Work element a series of work activities that are logically grouped together because they have a unified function in the task: assembling a component to a base part using several nuts and bolts. Labor productivity the most common productivity measure is productivity. Labor productivity index measure that compares the input/ output ratio from one year (time period) to the next. Lpi > 1, productivity improved from base period(past) Lpi < 1, productivity did not improve from the base period; it was less productive. Basic productive work content theoretical minimum amount of work required to accomplish the task. Excess non-productive activities extra physical and mental actions of worker, do not add value to the task, do not facilitate the productive work content, take time.