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time-and-motion study
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Noun1.time-and-motion study - an analysis of a specific job in an effort to find the most efficient method in terms of time and efforttime-and-motion study - an analysis of a specific job in an effort to find the most efficient method in terms of time and effort
motion study, time and motion study, time study, time-motion study, work study
examination, scrutiny - the act of examining something closely (as for mistakes)
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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.
I'm lost for words, except burger off by guardian.co.uk / guardian.co.uk
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.
Tame runaway cost creep: Eroding margins are a serious problem. ... by Moore, Jim / Contemporary Long Term Care
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.
Construction Workers, U.S.A by Boles, Bonita Louise / Monthly Labor Review
 
 
 
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