Work, Workers and Work Measurement / / Adam Abruzzi.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press eBook-Package Archive 1898-1999
• VerfasserIn: Abruzzi, Adam,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [1956]; ©1956
• Year of Publication: 1956
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (320 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Preface --; Contents --; Tables --; Figures --; Part I. Work Measurement: Theory, Practice, and Fact --; 1. Some Basic Problems of Inference --; 2. The Nature of Time Study --; 3. The Validity of Bating Procedures --; 4. Work Measurement in Practice --; Part II. A Work Measurement Theory: Procedure, Application, and Results --; 5. The Problems of Time Measurement --; 6. The Nature and Function of Process Standardization --; 7. Production Rates in the Short Term --; 8. Interpreting Short-Term Studies --; 9. Production Rates in the Long Term --; 10. Interpreting Long-Term Studies --; 11. Designing Studies of Production Activity --; 12. Measuring and Estimating Delays --; Part III. The Theory of Human Work: Beliefs, Codes, and Observations --; 13. The Nature of Standard Data Systems --; 14. Standard Element Estimates and Related Problems --; 15. Standard Motion Estimates and Related Problems --; 16. The Fundamental Character of Work --; 17. The Nature of Work Fatigue --; 18. Fatigue, Skill, and Work --; 19. Postscript and Salutation --; Bibliography --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780231899888; 9783110442489
• DOI: 10.7312/abru94680
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Adam Abruzzi.

Looks at ways of assessing the worth of work and the worth of the workers. Also presents a theory about work and ways of measuring it.