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Work-Sampling as a Technique in Determining Labor Utilization of Dairy Plants¹

Departments of Animal Industry and Experimental Statistics, North Carolina State College, Raleigh

ABSTRACT

Work-sampling was found to be a useful time-study technique in securing labor utilization data in a dairy plant.

The work-sampling technique has several advantages over other time-study procedures in the collecting of data on labor requirements. The technique will obtain a maximum of information in a minimum of time, which is important both from the standpoint of the more efficient utilization of the time-study man's time and the cost to the plant. One man can study the entire plant operation, or any particular phase of the operation that management desires. Another feature of importance is that this technique will not interfere, to any extent, with the daily routine of plant operation. Workers pay little attention to the time-study observer, since the observations are made by mere glances at the workers, rather than by direct concentration on a specific employee, as utilized in a production study.

¹ Published with the approval of the Director of Research, North Carolina Agricultural Experiment Station, Raleigh, as Paper No. 870 of the Journal Series.