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piece rate [′pēs ‚rāt] (industrial engineering) Wages paid per unit of production. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| The UFW said that the deal's piece rate system means that its members will average between $75 and $100, or 25 percent to 30 percent more, per week than pickers at other companies. At Midvale, he developed and put into place the basic elements of what later came to be known as "scientific management": the breakdown of work tasks into constituent elements; the timing of each element based on repeated stopwatch studies; the fixing of piece rate compensation based on those studies; standardization of work tasks on detailed instruction cards; and generally, the systematic consolidation of the shop floor's brain work in a "planning department. If you pay them a piece rate they may produce maybe 80," Choi said. |
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