Productivity Improvement: Employing Modern Productivity Enhancement Methods - Course
Course descriptionDuration: 10 daysContents: Mechanistic Job Design; Biological Job Design; Perceptual Job Design; Motivational Job Design. Modern Control Systems; Management Information System; Computerised Information Systems; Information Speed; Information Retrieval; Management Accounting System; The Import- Conversion –Export Process; The Import Process; The Conversion Process; The Export Process; Operational Control System; Service Operation; Process Scheduling; Loading; Sequencing; Detailed Scheduling. Inventory Control; Cost Control; Quality Control; Controlling Utilisation of Organisational Resources; Co-Ordaining As a Control Mechanism; Mutual Adjustment; Direct Supervision; Standardisation of Work Process; Standardisation of Input-Skills, Knowledge and Attitudes; Standardisation of Output; Organisational Structure as a Control Function; Communication Dissemination; Decision Making Involvement; The ‘In’ Inventory; The ‘Out’ Inventory; The ‘JIT’ Inventory System; The KANBAN System. The Relationship between Quality and Productivity Improvement; Establishing Quality Objectives; Stating Precise Objective; Setting Productivity Objectives in Relation to Other Organisational Objectives; Relating Objectives to Specific Actions; Pinpointing Expected Results; Specifying When Goals Are Expected To Be Achieved; The Job in Content and Context; The Individual in an Organisational Context; The Worker as an Internal Customer; The Organizational Context; The Nature of the Task; Workload and Productivity Implications; The Working Environment; The Design of Displays and Controls, And – The Role of Procedures; Competence and Productivity; Workforce Skills: Deskilling or Reskilling and Productivity Implications; Personality Factors and Productivity; Attitude and Productivity Implications; Aptitude as Trainability: A Productive Enhancer; Nurturing Productivity Enhancers of: Skills; Attitude; Disposition - The Organisational Context of: Work Patterns; The Embedded Culture; Available Resources; Communications Systems and Patterns; Predominant Leadership Styles. Employing Productivity Risk Analysis towards Productivity Improvement; The Symbiotic Relationship between Ergonomics and Productivity Improvement: Exploring the Productivity Benefits of Ergonomic Job Design.