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<blockquote data-quote="Brown Scourge" data-source="post: 106739"><p>I haven't read all of the posts on this subject but as a management person who did time studies for five years, four as the coordinator, I can speak with some authority on the subject. Some people do them right and some do them wrong. When I have a team of four supervisors plus myself I approached it like this. I want the load right to begin with, everything in it's place but everything there, no short cuts. I want the driver to do everything like he/she is supposed to do it, no short cuts. I want him/her to tell me if there is any reason he or she can not do a particular stop by the methods. If the explaniation sounded reasonalble I gave them credit for doing it that way. If not the didn't get the credit. If a driver fights you every step of the way you still give them credit for how the methods say the job should be done. Like the olf POLICE song "Every step you take, evey move you make, I'll be watching you".</p><p>When the time study was done I reviewed all of them before we sat down with the driver and a union steward and explained them in detail. If the driver gained time we gave it to them, if they lost time we explained where the loss was and why. I never in five years had a time study not implemented when it should have been implemented because the driver filed a grievance. Pretty proud of that too. My thoughts on Time study are, if you do them right and give the driver the time to do the job right they will. The driver will look good on paper, so will the supervisor, the manager, the division manager, the district manager and the district too. As a time study person I should not be affected by the results and that is the way it should be. If you think something on a timestudy is wrong go to your steward and sit down with your supervisor and manager and time study coordinator and get it explained or fixed.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Brown Scourge, post: 106739"] I haven't read all of the posts on this subject but as a management person who did time studies for five years, four as the coordinator, I can speak with some authority on the subject. Some people do them right and some do them wrong. When I have a team of four supervisors plus myself I approached it like this. I want the load right to begin with, everything in it's place but everything there, no short cuts. I want the driver to do everything like he/she is supposed to do it, no short cuts. I want him/her to tell me if there is any reason he or she can not do a particular stop by the methods. If the explaniation sounded reasonalble I gave them credit for doing it that way. If not the didn't get the credit. If a driver fights you every step of the way you still give them credit for how the methods say the job should be done. Like the olf POLICE song "Every step you take, evey move you make, I'll be watching you". When the time study was done I reviewed all of them before we sat down with the driver and a union steward and explained them in detail. If the driver gained time we gave it to them, if they lost time we explained where the loss was and why. I never in five years had a time study not implemented when it should have been implemented because the driver filed a grievance. Pretty proud of that too. My thoughts on Time study are, if you do them right and give the driver the time to do the job right they will. The driver will look good on paper, so will the supervisor, the manager, the division manager, the district manager and the district too. As a time study person I should not be affected by the results and that is the way it should be. If you think something on a timestudy is wrong go to your steward and sit down with your supervisor and manager and time study coordinator and get it explained or fixed. [/QUOTE]
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