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time-and-motion study
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time-and-motion study

Analysis of the time spent in going through the different motions of a job or series of jobs in the evaluation of industrial performance. Such studies were first instituted in offices and factories in the U.S. in the early 20th century. They were widely adopted as a means of improving work methods by subdividing the different operations of a job into measurable elements, and they were in turn used as aids in standardization of work and in checking the efficiency of workers and equipment.



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I'm not in the habit of performing time-and-motion studies on myself, but I would be surprised if more than two minutes had elapsed between my locking the car door, trotting the 15 yards to the paper shop immediately adjacent, selecting a broadsheet while secretly coveting Grazia and returning to find a young man fitting a shabby little runaround with a great big wheel clamp.
It's time to implement detailed time-and-motion studies involving the direct care of your assisted living residents -- just as the manufacturing industries have done for about 100 years.
Rote manufacturing techniques are not the stuff of craft, and because of this, the duties of each worker are far removed from the automobile assembly lines of Henry Ford, or the industrial time-and-motion studies of Frederick Taylor.
 
 
 
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