The bonus increases in proportion to the increase in efficiency. This statement applies to
Halsey plan
Gantt plan
Emerson's efficiency plan
Rowan plan
Correct Answer :
C. Emerson's efficiency plan
Related Questions
When slack of an activity is positive
It represents a situation where extra resources are available and the completion of project is not delayed
It represents that a programme falls behind schedule and additional resources are required to complete the project in time
The activity is critical and any delay in its performance will delay the completion of whole project
Any one of the above
Which of the following plans motivates supervisors by paying a premium on time saved by workers?
Halsey plan
Rowan plan
Haynes plan
Emerson's plan
The difference between the time available to do the job and the time required to do the job, is known as
Event
Float
Duration
Constraint
The time of completing a project in network analysis is given by following time of the critical activity meeting at the final triode
Early finish
Early start
Late start
Late finish
In inventory control, the economic order quantity is the
Optimum lot size
Highest level of inventory
Lot corresponding to breakeven point
Capability of a plant to produce
PMTP (predetermined motion time systems) include
MTM (method time measurement)
WFS (work factor systems)
BNTS (basic motion time study)
All of the above
Indirect expenses include
Factory expenses
Selling expenses
Administrative expenses
All of these
The basic difference between PERT and CPM is that
PERT deals with events and CPM with activities
Critical path is determined in PERT only
Costs are considered on CPM only and not in PERT
Guessed times are used in PERT and evaluated times in CPM
In micro-motion study, therblig is described by
A symbol
An event
An activity
Standard symbol and colour
The type of organisation preferred for a steel industry, is
Line organisation
Functional organisation
Line and staff organisation
Line, staff and functional organisation
The purpose of micro-motion study is to
Assist in finding out the most efficient way of doing work
Train the individual operator regarding the motion economy principles
Help in collecting the motion time data for synthetic time standards
All of the above
The production cost per unit can be reduced by
Producing more with increased inputs
Producing more with the same inputs
Eliminating idle time
Minimising resource waste
If TL is the largest allowable event occurrence time, total activity slack (s) is equal to
Latest start time earliest start time
Latest finish time earliest finish time (EFT)
TLEFT
All of the above
Gantt chart gives information about
Scheduling and routing
Sales
Production schedule
Machine utilisation
Linear programming can be applied successfully to
Chemical industry
Oil industry
Banks
All of these
The factors which are to be considered while developing a good wage incentive plan will include
Adequate incentive
Ease of administration
Guaranteed basic pay
All of these
The most important objective behind plant layout is
Overall simplification, safety of integration
Economy in space
Maximum travel time in plant
To provide conveniently located shops
The disadvantage of product layout is
High initial investment for the specialized facilities
Skilled labour to operate machines
Production time is longer, requiring more goods in inventory
High cost of inspection
Probabilistic time for completion of any activity can be found out from
Optimistic time
Pessimistic time
Most likely time
All of these
CPM stands for
Combined Process Method
Critical Path Method
Common Planning Method
Critical Process Method
The reasons which are basically responsible for the formation of a queue should be that
The average service rate Hess than the average arrival rate
Output rate is linearly proportional to input
Output rate is constant and the input varies in a random manner
All of the above
Valve analysis is particularly of interest when
Jobbing work economics are involved
Production is on large scale
Only few components are involved
Costly equipment is used
The important file in making a PERT is
An event can't be accomplished until activities leading to it are completed
No activity from any event can be started from preceding event till it is completed
Length of arrow has nothing to do with time
All of the above
In the Halsey system of wage incentive plan, a worker is
Paid as per efficiency
Ensured of minimum wages
Not paid any bonus till his efficiency
Never a loser
Percent idle time for men or machines is found by
Work sampling
Time study
Method study
Work study
The assumption in PERT is
A project will always be behind schedule, if left uncorrected
Cost of project will always be more than the estimated cost, if no timely corrections are taken
A project can be subdivided into a set of predictable, independent activities
Activities are fixed and can't be changed
The time by which the activity completion time can be delayed without affecting the start of succeeding activities, is known as
Duration
Total float
Free float
Interfering float
The most important function of inventory control is
Stock control system
To run the stores effectively
Technical responsibility for the state of materials
All of the above
The amount deducted from the salary of workers towards employees provident fund is
Credited into reserves of company
Deposited in nationalised bank
Deposited in post office
Deposited in the account of worker with Provident Fund Commissioner
Standard time as compared to normal time is
Greater
Smaller
Equal
There is no such correlation