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Work study methods aim to improve employee productivity and operational efficiency. This includes techniques like time study, motion study, and method study. The goal is to analyze existing work methods, eliminate inefficient motions, set performance standards, and determine the best way to accomplish tasks. Principles of motion economy group factors like effective operator use, workplace arrangement, and tools/equipment to minimize waste in work methods. The work study process involves breaking jobs into elements, recording times, setting standards, and allowing for fatigue to establish optimal work methods.

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Module 4

Work study methods aim to improve employee productivity and operational efficiency. This includes techniques like time study, motion study, and method study. The goal is to analyze existing work methods, eliminate inefficient motions, set performance standards, and determine the best way to accomplish tasks. Principles of motion economy group factors like effective operator use, workplace arrangement, and tools/equipment to minimize waste in work methods. The work study process involves breaking jobs into elements, recording times, setting standards, and allowing for fatigue to establish optimal work methods.

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Employee Productivity

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Method study includes work simplification, job
design, value analysis etc.
Work study method was developed to improve
performance of a given work.
Work study is the body of knowledge concerned
with analysis of the work methods, and the
standard of proposed work methods.
Objective of work study is to improve operational
efficiency.
The purpose of work study is to determine the best
or most effective method of accomplishing a
necessary operation.

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Time study and motion study are results of
practices developed by F.W. Taylor, Frank
and others.
Time study- Exercising control over the
output in respect of a job by setting
standards for performance.
Time study may be used to compare the
effectiveness of alternative work methods.

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Method study is also known as methods
improvement.
Prime objectives of method study is to
eliminate wasteful and inefficient motions.

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Method study procedure involves six steps.
Select
Record
Examine
Develop
Install
Maintain
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Motion study is the science of eliminating
wastefulness resulting from using unnecessary,
ill-directed and inefficient motion. The aim of
motion study is to find and perpetuate the
scheme of least waste methods of labour.
Micro motion study provides a valuable
technique for making minute analysis of those
operations that are short in cycle, contain rapid
movements and involve high production over a
long period of time.

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Principles of motion economy are divided
into three groups.
a. Effective use of the operator
b. Arrangement of the workplace
c. Tools and equipment
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1. Break the job into elements
2. Record the observed time for each element by means of either
time study, synthesis or analytical estimating.
3. Establish elemental time values by extending observed time into
normal time for each element by applying a rating factor.
4. Assess relaxation allowance for personal needs and physical and
mental fatigue involved in carrying out each element.
5. Add the relaxation allowance time to the normal time for each
element to arrive at the work content.
6. Determine the frequency of occurrences of each element in the
job, multiply the work content of each element by its frequency
(i.e., number of time the element occurs in the job) and add up the
time to arrive at the work content for the job.
7. Add contingency allowance if any to arrive at the standard time to
do the job
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A qualified worker is one who is accepted
as having the necessary physical attributes,
possessing the required intelligence and
education and having acquired the
necessary skill and knowledge to carry out
the work in hand to satisfactory standards of
safety, quantity and quality.

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