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.

Identify the technique of scientific management, pointed out by the below given statement of the above passage.

"She keeps a continuous watch on body movements of workers and places their body movements in three categories."

Motion study

The correct answer is option (2) : Motion study

The above statement highlights the motion study.

Motion study refers to the study of movements like lifting, putting objects, sitting and changing positions, etc., which are undertaken while doing a typical job. Unnecessary movements are sought to be eliminated so that it takes less time to complete the job efficiently On close examination of body motions, for example, it is possible to find out:

• (i) Motions which are productive
• (ii) Motions which are incidental (e.g., going to stores)
• (iii) Motions which are unproductive

Taylor used stopwatches and various symbols and colours to identify different motions studies, Taylor was able to design suitable equipment and tools to educate workers on their use. The results achieved by him were truly remarkable.