title: Participative versus assigned production standard setting in a repetitive industrial task: a strategy for improving worker productivity.
abstract: The participative standard with feedback condition was superior to the assigned difficult (140% of normal) standard with feedback condition in terms of worker productivity. The percentage increase in worker productivity with the participative standard and feedback condition was 46%, whereas the increase in the assigned difficult standard with feedback was 23%, compared to the control group (no standard, no feedback). Worker productivity also improved significantly as a result of assigning a normal (100%) production standard with feedback, compared to the control group, and the increase was 12%. The participative standard with feedback condition emerges as the optimum strategy for improving worker productivity in a repetitive industrial production task.
authors.affiliation: Dalhousie University, Canada. Biman.Das@dal.ca.
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authors.lastname: Das
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authors.lastname: Shikdar
mesh_terms: D004526:Efficiency; D004650:Employee Performance Appraisal; D006801:Humans; D007221:Industry; D009790:Occupations; D011361:Professional Competence; D013997:Time Factors