Work, Workers and Work Measurement / / 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.
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press eBook-Package Archive 1898-1999 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [1956] ©1956 |
| Year of Publication: | 1956 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (320 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- 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