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Work Sampling Technique Explained

Work sampling is a technique for establishing standard times for activities, introduced by L.H.C. Tippet in 1934. It involves computing the proportion of time a worker spends on specific activities through random observations. For example, if a worker spends 10% of an 8-hour shift inspecting components, this translates to an average of 1.2 minutes spent on inspection per component produced.

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Work Sampling Technique Explained

Work sampling is a technique for establishing standard times for activities, introduced by L.H.C. Tippet in 1934. It involves computing the proportion of time a worker spends on specific activities through random observations. For example, if a worker spends 10% of an 8-hour shift inspecting components, this translates to an average of 1.2 minutes spent on inspection per component produced.

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WORK SAMPLING

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Work Sampling:
• Work sampling is a technique for establishing standard times for
activities.
• This method was introduced by L.H.C. Tippet in 1934.
• If a given individual performs more than one activity, then the time
standard for each activity may be computed using this method.
• In this method, the standard time of a specified activity is determined
by computing the proportion of time the worker spends on that
activity.

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• Example:
During a 8 hour study period an analyst made a total of 100
observations and 10 of those observations showed that the worker
was inspecting the size of components produced on his machine. It
would be assumed that 10/100 or 10 per cent of the time was spent
on inspection. Ten percent of 8 hours is 48 minutes. The proportion
of time is 48 minutes. The proportion of time is computed by
observing the operator at random intervals.
• Let us assume that the operator has produced 40 components
during the 8 hour duration. Then the average time spent for
inspection on one component is 1.2 minute (48/40 min)

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