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OSHA
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Occupational Safety and Health Administration, created b the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970.
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Time-based system
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Compensation based on time an employee has worked during a pay period.
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Output-based (incentive) system
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Compensation based on amount of output an employee produced during a pay period.
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Knowledge-based pay
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A pay system used by organizations to reward workers who undergo training that increases their skills.
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Job design
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The act of specifying the contents and methods of jobs.
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Specialization
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Work that concentrates on some aspect of a product or service.
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Job enlargement
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Giving a worker a larger portion of the total task, by horizontal loading.
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Job rotation
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Workers periodically exchange jobs.
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Job enrichment
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Increasing responsibility for planning and coordination tasks, by vertical loading.
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Self-directed teams
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Groups empowered to make certain changes in their work processes.
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Ergonomics
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Incorporation of human factors in the design of the workplace.
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Methods analysis
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Analyzing how a job is done.
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Flow process chart
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Chart used to examine the overall sequence of an operation by focusing on movements of the operator or flow of materials.
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Worker-machine chart
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Chart used to determine portions of a work cycle during which an operator and equipment are busy or idle.
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Motion study
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Systematic study of the human motions used to perform an operation.
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Motion study principles
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Guidelines for designing motion-efficient work procedures.
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Therbligs
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Basic elemental motions that make up a job.
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Micromotion study
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Use of motion pictures and slow motion to study motions that otherwise would be too rapid to analyze.
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Work measurement
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Determining how long it should to do a job.
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Standard time
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The amount of time it should take a qualified worker to complete a specified task, working at a sustainable rate, using given methods, tools and equipment, raw materials, and workplace arrangement.
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Stopwatch time study
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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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Standard elemental times
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Time standards derived from a firm's historical time data.
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Predetermined time standards
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Published data based on extensive research to determine standard elemental times.
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Work sampling
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Technique for estimating the proportion of time that a worker or machine spends on various activities and the ideal time.
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Random number table
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Table consisting of unordered sequences of numbers, used to determine random observation schedules.
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