Work Measurement Quiz

Four of the components of job design are:

• employment stability, work schedules, work sampling, and motivation & incentive systems.

• job specialization, job expansion, psychological components, and self-directed teams.

• labor specialization and enrichment, motivation and incentive systems, employment stability, and work sampling.

• ergonomics and work methods, method time measurement, work schedules, and incentive systems

• labor specialization, time studies, work sampling, and pre-determined time standards.

What is the behavioral approach to job design that involves giving the worker more tasks requiring similar skills?

• job enlargement

• job enrichment

• job enhancement

• job rotation

• job involvement

Which of the following terms implies an increase in responsibility and control in the vertical direction?

• job rotation

• job enrichment

• job re-design

• job enlargement

• job satisfaction

The difference between job enrichment and job enlargement is that:

• enlarged jobs involve vertical expansion, while enriched jobs involve horizontal expansion.

• enriched jobs enable an employee to do a number of boring jobs instead of just one.

• job enlargement is more psychologically satisfying than job enrichment.

• job enrichment is suitable for all employees, whereas job enlargement is not.

• enriched jobs involve vertical expansion, while enlarged jobs involve horizontal expansion.

Which of the following is not a limitation of job expansion?

• higher capital cost

• higher wage rates

• smaller labor pool

• higher training costs

• All of the above are limitations of job expansion.

One of the elements of ergonomics is:

• allocating work time based on economic studies.

• the cost justification of technology.

• designing tools and machines that facilitate human work.

• assembly line balancing.

• the establishment of time standards.

Which of the following is not analyzed using methods techniques?

• movement of capital

• body movement

• movement of individuals

• movement of material

• crew activity

Methods analysis focuses on:

• the design of the machines used to perform a task.

• establishing time standards.

• reducing the number of skills needed for the completion of a task.

• issues such as the movement of individuals or material.

• evaluating training programs to see if they are efficient.

Which of the following is used by methods analysis in analyzing body movement at the workstation level?

• MTM chart

• flow diagram

• operations chart

• process chart

• improvement chart

Methods analysis employs which of the following charts in its analysis of the movement of workers and materials?

• micro-motion chart

• flow diagram

• activity chart

• man-machine chart

• movement chart