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WORK MEASUREMENT

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 LEARNING OUTCOMES

At the end of this chapter, you should be able to:

Define work measurement
Identify the importance of work measurement
Understand the methods in measuring work
standard
Explain allowances and the types of allowances
Analyze work measurement

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 OVERVIEW OF
WORK MEASUREMENT

 Work measurement
• Involves the estimation of the amount of human
effort needed to produce a unit of a specified
output from an operation
 Work standard
• The amount of time that is taken by a well-trained
worker, operating under normal working
conditions, to produce one unit of a specified
output from an operation.

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WORK MEASUREMENT

Benefits of work measurement:

Manpower planning
Production planning and scheduling
Estimating productions costs
Basis for incentives
Training of employees

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WORK STANDARD

Some of the methods include:

1.Historical Experience
2.Predetermined Time and Motion Studies
3.Work Sampling
4.Time Study
a)Observed time
b)Basic (normal) time
c)Standard time

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TYPES OF ALLOWANCES

Allowances
Break times (extra time) given to employees to
attend to personal needs, such as a lunch break or
tea/coffee break, etc., with the purpose of
overcoming tiredness or fatigue.

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TYPES OF ALLOWANCES
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Types of allowances:
Relaxation allowance
Contingency allowance
Process allowance
Policy allowance

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ANALYSIS

The two most common methods used in

measuring work standard are:
Work Sampling Method
Time Study Method

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ANALYSIS (cont.)
Work Sampling Method
Under this method, the manager must first determine the
number of observations that is needed. The following formula is
applied.

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Time study method

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