A Handbook for Job Restructuring

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1970 - Job analysis - 46 pages
This handbook has been developed to provide a basic guide for use in restructuring job systems in order to utilize available manpower resources more efficiently. This handbook presents primarily a methodology and does not deal with problems involving personnel practices, union relations, plant policies, and similar matters.

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Page 26 - Using body members and/or tools or work aids to work, move, guide, or place objects or materials in situations where ultimate responsibility for the attainment of standards occurs and selection of appropriate tools, objects, or materials, and the adjustment of the tool to the task require exercise of considerable judgment. 2 Operating-Controlling: Starting, stopping, controlling, and adjusting the progress of machines or equipment designed to fabricate and/or process objects or materials. Operating...
Page 30 - INTELLIGENCE: General learning ability. The ability to "catch on" or understand instructions and underlying principles; the ability to reason and make judgments. Closely related to doing well in school.
Page 41 - Ibs. maximum and occasionally lifting and/or carrying such articles as dockets, ledgers, and small tools. Although a sedentary job is defined as one which involves sitting, a certain amount of walking and standing is often necessary in carrying out job duties. Jobs are sedentary if walking and standing are required only occasionally and other sedentary criteria are met.
Page 26 - Setting up: Adjusting machines or equipment by replacing or altering tools, jigs, fixtures, and attachments to prepare them to perform their functions, change their performance, or restore their proper functioning if they break down. Workers who set up one or a number of machines for other workers or who set up and personally operate a variety of machines are included here.
Page 30 - Intelligence. General learning ability. The ability to "catch on" or understand instructions and underlying principles; the ability to reason and make judgments.
Page 41 - Balancing: Maintaining body equilibrium to prevent falling when walking, standing, crouching, or running on narrow, slippery, or erratically moving surfaces; or maintaining body equilibrium when performing gymnastic feats.
Page 42 - Humid: Atmospheric condition with moisture content sufficiently high to cause marked bodily discomfort. 5 Noise and Vibration: Sufficient noise, either constant or intermittent, to cause marked distraction or possible injury to the sense of hearing, and /or sufficient vibration (production of an oscillating movement or strain on the body or its extremities from repeated motion or shock) to cause bodily harm if endured day after day.
Page 41 - Crawling: Moving about on the hands and knees or hands and feet. 4. Reaching, handling, fingering, and/or feeling: 1.
Page 26 - Supervising: Determining or interpreting work procedures for a group of workers, assigning specific duties to them, maintaining harmonious relations among them, and promoting efficiency. 4 Diverting: Amusing others. 5 Persuading: Influencing others in favor of a product, service, or point of view. 6 Speaking-Signaling: Talking with and/or signaling people to convey or exchange information. Includes giving assignments and/or directions to helpers or assistants. 7 Serving: Attending to the needs or...
Page 36 - MOTOR COORDINATION: Ability to coordinate eyes and hands or fingers rapidly and accurately in making precise movements with speed. Ability to make a movement response accurately and quickly.

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