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Comparision of Paced and Unpaced Performance

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Book cover Work Measurement: Some Research Studies

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It has been shown that when experienced workers in industry, engaged on repetitive method-studied tasks, are free to work at their own pace, their performance displays a highly consistent pattern, the principal feature of which is the absence of any trend in operation times throughout the work period (Chapter 7).

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© 1968 Norman A. Dudley

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Dudley, N.A. (1968). Comparision of Paced and Unpaced Performance. In: Work Measurement: Some Research Studies. Studies in Management. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-00551-2_8

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