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True/False 1) Self-directed teams may mean having no supervision on the factory floor, 2) Equitable pay alone cannot achieve a reasonable quality of work life in an organization. 3) Mutual trust means that both management and employee strive to meet common objectives. 4) Labor planning determines employment stability. 5) Maintaining a stable workforce generally results in the firm paying higher wages than a firm that follows demand. 6) Flextime is a system that allows employees, within limits, to determine their own work schedules. 7) Labor specialization includes the development of specialized tools to reduce labor costs. 8) An enlarged job has more responsibility than the same job enriched. 9) Job rotation is an example of job enlargement. 10) Fredrick W. Taylor is credited with introducing psychology into the workplace. 11) Self-directed teams tend to be successful in work environments where there is little employee empowerment 12) Job expansion can lead to increased labor cost because of the extra workers hired in the expansion 13) Profit-sharing is a motivation and incentive system where executives receive stock options. 14) The physical environment in which employees work may affect the quality of work life, but it does not affect their performance and safety. 15) Ergonomics is a branch of economics that deals with costs of scheduling workers. 16) An operations chart, or right-hand/left-hand chart, points out wasted motion and idle time. 17) Kanbans and andons are both elements of the visual workplace, because they are visual signals that replace printouts and paperwork. LIPA