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Chapter 15
Tasks, Technologies, and Organizational Design
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Understand the basic principles that guide the optimal assignment of workers (who differ in their abilities) to tasks or jobs (that differ in their skill requirements).
Recognize the distinction between comparative and absolute advantage, and as a result be able to explain why it may not be optimal to assign a worker to a given task even if she is a thousand times more productive than the worker who is currently employed there.
Explain the principal differences between traditional mass-production methods and modern or lean production systems.
Understand with the importance of exploiting systemwide complementarities.
Recognize the key distinguishing features of high performance work practices.
Understand the basic tenets of insider econometrics.