Introduction

Abstract

This present volume is not designed as an instruction manual for work measurement practitioners, nor is it intended to supplant in any way the authoritative textbooks in this field, but rather to draw the attention of the practitioner and of the scholar to a series of work measurement researches which have important implications for them both. In particular, there is a brief review of the emergence and development of time study and its related techniques, followed by detailed accounts of research, pursued mainly in the United Kingdom since the Second World War and undertaken with the object of improving both theory and practice.