(in business or industry) a system of assessing methods of working so as to achieve the maximum output and efficiency.
Example sentencesExamples
- Far from increasing their output, operatives kept production well below work study targets.
- Maduna said that a work study evaluation carried out some years ago had recommended the creation of 300 new posts but these had not yet been done.
- A work study perhaps or work measurement might throw up some surprising results in large savings in administration or are we to believe there is no-one ‘employed’ in non-jobs in local government?
- Perhaps an exercise in work study / work measurement might not be out of order.
- He joined the firm as a work study engineer or ‘efficiency expert’.