Question

Discuss:

a) What are major new approaches in job design? Explain each of them.

b) How is "standard work time" used in managerial planning and controlling?

c) What is the "leaning curve"? How does this concept play a role in management planning?

Answer 1

a:- Job design approaches has two dimensions: impact and complexity. Job designing is one of the core area of human relationship management to identify the relationship between a particular job and the technological , organizational requirement .The new approaches focus more on job enrichment and job rotation aspects. Unlike traditional way of job designing the current design is more focussesd on building a collaborative network where the resources could upskill themseves and adding more values to the work which they are doing. The digital intervention kind o new aspects has been incorporated with all kind of job. This helps in updating the job with changing requirement from the market needs.

b- Standard work time is considered to be the benchmarking work time which helps the managerical planning and controlling. The baseline created thought the standard work time reduces the effort in decision making and further improvement plans like optimization. This is calculated based on the time study about the turn around time of certain tasks and this helps in budget planning of resources, allocation of resources . The controlling plays vital role in time management and this has huge impact over the efficiency and productivity.

c:- Learning and experience curves are nowadays extensively using by organization for their improvement plans.The learning curve actually shows that if a particular task is performed over and over than it should reach at a certain point where it can be completed with less time  at each iteration.

Learning curve is very  relevant in taking decisions on following areas:

• Pricing decision of products and services based on estimation of future costs.
• scheduling of work force  based on the immediate or future requirements
• Projection of capital requirement
• Set-up of incentive structure