Read the following passage and answer the question.

Mona is a production manager in a company. She wants to improve performance of shop floor level in the factory. For this, she takes many steps. She separates planning and execution functions and appoints planning in-charge and production in-charge under her subordination.

She eliminated superfluous varieties, sizes and dimensions of product lines. She keeps a continuous watch on body movements of workers of the factory and places them in three categories of productive, incidental and unproductive movements. She instructs workers to discontinue unproductive movements.

On the basis of a study, she decided the amount and frequency of rest intervals for workers.

All these steps gave positive result and factory production increased significantly in both quality and quantity teams.

'She eliminated superfluous varieties, sizes and dimensions of product lines'.

Identify the technique of scientific management highlighted in the above sentence.

Simplification of work

The correct answer is option (3) : Simplification of work

The technique of scientific management highlighted in the sentence "She eliminated superfluous varieties, sizes, and dimensions of product lines" is Simplification of work.

Simplification aims at eliminating superfluous varieties, sizes and dimensions while standardisation implies devising new varieties instead of the existing ones. Simplification aims at eliminating unnecessary diversity of products. It results in savings of cost of labour, machines and tools. It implies reduced inventories, fuller utilisation of equipment and increasing turnover.