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33 Cards in this Set
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compensation based on time an employee has worked during a pay period
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time-based system
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compensation based on amount of output an employee produced during a pay period
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output-based system
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a pay system used by organizations to reward workers who undergo training that increases their skills
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knowledge-based pay
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the act of specifying the contents and methods of jobs
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job design
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work that concentrates on some aspect of a product or service
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specialization
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giving a worker a larger portion of the total task
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job enlargement
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the additional work is on the same level of skill and responsibility as the original job
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horizontal loading
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workers periodically exchange jobs
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job rotation
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increasing responsibility for planning and coordination tasks
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job enrichment
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which behavioral approaches to job design go with horizontal loading and vertical loading
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job enlargement; job enrichment
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groups empowered to make certain changes in their work processes
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self-directed teams
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incorporation of human factors in the design of the workplace
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ergonomics
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analyzing how a job is done
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methods analysis
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used to review and critically examine the overall sequence of an operation by focusing on the movements of the operator or the flow of materials
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flow process chart
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used to determine portions of a work cycle during which an operator and equipment are busy or idle
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worker-machine chart
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systematic study of the human motions used to perform an operation
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motion study
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basic elemental motions, break down jobs into basic elements and base improvements
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therbligs
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determining how long it should take to do a job
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work measurement
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the amount of time it should take a qualified worker to complete a specified task
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standard time
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development of a time standard based on observations of one worker taken over a number of cycles
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stopwatch time study
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time standards derived from a firms historical time data
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standard elemental times
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published data based on extensive research to determine standard elemental times
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predetermined time standards
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technique for estimating the proportion of time that a worker or machine spends on various activities and the idle time
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work sampling
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the idea that with increasing repetitions the time it takes to complete a task decreases
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learning curves
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small factory with a narrow product focus, located near major markets
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microfactory
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technique for evaluating location choices in economic terms
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locational cost-profit-volume analysis
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general approach to evaluating locations that includes quantitative and qualitative inputs
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factor rating
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method for locating a distribution center that minimizes distribution cost
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center of gravity method
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what are some community factors that influence company location decisions
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facilities for education, shopping, transportation, community size, cost of utilities, and taxes, etc
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what are some uses of learning curves
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labor scheduling, negotiated purchasing, pricing new products, inventory purchase/planning, capacity planning
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based on the concept that as the number of units produced doubles, labor hours per unit decline at a constant rate
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arithmetic approach to learning curve
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the time required to produce a certain numbered item using logarithmic functions
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logarithmic approach to learning curve
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this approach can be used to predict the number of repetitions that will be needed to reach a specified unit time
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coefficient approach to learning curve
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