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An example and a proposal concerning the correlation of worker processing times in parallel tasks / Kenneth L. Schultz in Management science, Vol. 56 N° 1 (Janvier 2010) 

Public ISBD [article]  in Management science > Vol. 56 N° 1 (Janvier 2010) . - pp. 176-191 Titre : An example and a proposal concerning the correlation of worker processing times in parallel tasks Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Kenneth L. Schultz, Auteur ; Tobias Schoenherr, Auteur ; David Nembhard, Auteur Année de publication : 2010 Article en page(s) : pp. 176-191 Note générale : Management Langues : Anglais (eng) Mots-clés : Organizational  studies  Motivation  incentives  Inventory  production  Policies  Capacity  Line  design  Interdependence  Equity  theory Index. décimale : 658 Organisation des entreprises. Techniques du commerce Résumé : Models and understanding of line design depend on accurate assessments of the effects of design parameters on human actions. Although equity theory predicts that workers will react to the speed of people around them, experimental work has failed to find this effect in an industrial setting with parallel workstations or a change in coworkers. With the current research we contribute to the understanding of line design by using archival data from a manufacturing line. We show that workers do react to the speed of their coworkers, but that individual reactions vary widely. Because workers are different both in speed and reaction, managerial implications are not straightforward. We model an optimal and a heuristic rearrangement of workers and suggest a modified heuristic that performs well for increasing throughput. Our methodology combines empirical approaches, analytical modeling, and Monte Carlo simulation. DEWEY : 658 ISSN : 0025-1909 En ligne : http://mansci.journal.informs.org/content/56/1.toc [article] An example and a proposal concerning the correlation of worker processing times in parallel tasks [texte imprimé] / Kenneth L. Schultz, Auteur ; Tobias Schoenherr, Auteur ; David Nembhard, Auteur . - 2010 . - pp. 176-191. Management Langues : Anglais (eng) in Management science > Vol. 56 N° 1 (Janvier 2010) . - pp. 176-191 Mots-clés : Organizational  studies  Motivation  incentives  Inventory  production  Policies  Capacity  Line  design  Interdependence  Equity  theory Index. décimale : 658 Organisation des entreprises. Techniques du commerce Résumé : Models and understanding of line design depend on accurate assessments of the effects of design parameters on human actions. Although equity theory predicts that workers will react to the speed of people around them, experimental work has failed to find this effect in an industrial setting with parallel workstations or a change in coworkers. With the current research we contribute to the understanding of line design by using archival data from a manufacturing line. We show that workers do react to the speed of their coworkers, but that individual reactions vary widely. Because workers are different both in speed and reaction, managerial implications are not straightforward. We model an optimal and a heuristic rearrangement of workers and suggest a modified heuristic that performs well for increasing throughput. Our methodology combines empirical approaches, analytical modeling, and Monte Carlo simulation. DEWEY : 658 ISSN : 0025-1909 En ligne : http://mansci.journal.informs.org/content/56/1.toc