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Quiz 7: Work Design and Measurement
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Question 81
Multiple Choice
Which of the following is not characteristic of time-based compensation plans?
Question 82
Multiple Choice
A job has a normal time of 12 minutes, a performance rating of .80, and an allowance factor of 20 percent of job time.The standard time for this job in minutes is:
Question 83
Multiple Choice
The technique which can be used to estimate the percentage of time a worker or piece of equipment is idle is known as:
Question 84
Multiple Choice
Allowance percentages normally would not include:
Question 85
Multiple Choice
A technique for estimating the proportion of time a worker spends on various activities is:
Question 86
Essay
What number of observations would be required in a time study in order to obtain a 95 percent confidence that the average time observed was no more than 0.6 minutes from the true mean, assuming a standard deviation of cycle time of 1.8 minutes?
Question 87
Multiple Choice
What will be the effect on sample size in work sampling of increasing the permissible maximum error?
Question 88
Multiple Choice
In stopwatch time study, adjusting the normal time by an allowance factor for normal delays and interruptions results in the:
Question 89
Essay
An initial time study resulted in an average observed time of 2.2 minutes per cycle, and a standard deviation of 0.3 minutes per cycle.The performance rating was 1.20.What sample size, including the 20 observations in the initial study, would be necessary to have a confidence of 95.44 percent that the observed time was within 4 percent of the true value?
Question 90
Multiple Choice
Which of the following is not an advantage of work sampling compared to stopwatch time study?
Question 91
Multiple Choice
Standard times derived from a firm's historical data are known as:
Question 92
Multiple Choice
Methods analysis and motion study techniques develop which aspect of jobs?
Question 93
Multiple Choice
Which sample proportion will require the largest number of work sampling observations?
Question 94
Essay
An analyst has observed 28 work cycles, for which the average cycle time was five minutes and the performance rating was 1.05.Allowances for the department are 25 percent of job time.What standard time is appropriate for this job?