Based on Data from a Work Sampling Study, an Office

question 23

Essay

Based on data from a work sampling study, an office worker spends 21.5% of his time filing.Over the work sampling period, he was idle 12% of the time.If the worker filed 420 items in a 40-hour work week while performing other activities, and if his performance rating factor for filing was 0.95, determine the standard time, in minutes, that it took him to file an item.

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Definitions:

Therapeutic Services

These are treatments and interventions designed to treat illness and improve health in individuals, ranging from medical and surgical treatments to counseling and physical therapies.

Entitativity

The property of a group that makes it seem like a coherent, distinct and unitary entity.

Social Facilitation

The tendency for individuals to perform differently when in the presence of others than when alone, typically enhancing performance on simple tasks and impairing it on complex tasks.

Audience Effects

Impact of the presence of others on individual task performance.