ABSTRACT
the object of time studies is to establish a reasonable speed of work or standard of output to which workpeople should be able to conform, and it is therefore closely linked with the idea of “a fair day's work.” In many occupations the work is too variable for measurement in defined units, and time studies are therefore mainly applied to repetition work where large numbers of similar articles are produced in succession. If a worker makes many units in a short time, the time study will fix the number of units which should be produced in an hour, but if a considerable time is required to produce one unit then the time study will fix the number of hours and minutes which a worker should take to produce the unit. These standards once established become the targets at which the workers must aim, and which a majority of them should be able to reach without undue fatigue.
