Work Sampling

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Mahalaleel

Malayo
Work Sampling
is the statistical
technique for

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determining the
proportion of time
spent by workers in
various defined
categories of activity
Work Sampling

Activity
Occurrence
Ratio Delay
Sampling
Study
Sampling
INVOLVES
LARGE No. of
OBSERVATIONS
At

RANDOM
intervals
Benefits
permits quick analysis,
recognition, and
enhancement of
job responsibilities, tasks,
performance competencies,
and
organizational work flows.
characteristics
CHARACTERISTIC

1
Sufficient
TIME FOR
THESTUDY
CHARACTERISTIC

2 MULTIPLE
WORKERS
CHARACTERISTIC

3 LONG
CYCLE
TIME
CHARACTERISTIC

4
NON
Repetitive
WORKcycle
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HOW?
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1. Define
Design
Analyze
6. Define
4.
5. the
and
the
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Makethe the
random
manufacturing
task
study.
present the tasks
visitselement.
observers
study
for which the
result
standard time is to
be determined.
Determining the
number of
observations
needed in work
sampling
After the work elements are defined, the
number of observations for the desired
accuracy at the desired confidence level must
be determined. The formula used in this
method is:
= standard error of proportion
p = percentage of idle time
q = percentage of working time
n = number of observations

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