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Job Enrichment
A managerial program or philosophy to make jobs more rewarding and less monotonous for the individual worker. Procedures used may include job enlargement or job rotation based on the introduction of more varied, autonomous, and complete work tasks. The provision of genuine and meaningful humanization of work.

 

 

Just-in-time
Taiichi Ohno pioneered JIT in the early 1970s at the Toyota car assembly plants. It is a manufacturing organization's philosophy that decreases waste by supplying parts only when the assembly process requires them. JIT requires precision, as the right parts must arrive “just-in-time” at the right position (work station at the assembly line). It is used primarily for high-volume repetitive flow manufacturing processes. The JIT framework regards inventories as a poor excuse for bad planning, inflexibility, wrong machinery, quality problems, etc.