任务分配策略对生产效率的影响机制研究

管理评论 ›› 2020, Vol. 32 ›› Issue (9): 296-307.

任务分配策略对生产效率的影响机制研究

王辉^1,2, 龚其国¹, 杨海丽², 安建华³

1. 中国科学院大学经济与管理学院, 北京 100049;
2. 重庆工商大学经济学院, 重庆 400060;
3. 航天信息股份有限公司涿州分公司, 涿州 072750

收稿日期:2019-04-10 出版日期:2020-09-28 发布日期:2020-09-30
通讯作者: 龚其国(通讯作者),中国科学院大学经济与管理学院教授,博士生导师,博士
作者简介:王辉,中国科学院大学经济与管理学院博士研究生,重庆工商大学经济学院讲师;杨海丽,重庆工商大学经济学院副教授,硕士生导师,博士;安建华,航天信息股份有限公司涿州分公司高级工程师。
基金资助:
国家自然科学基金项目（71932002）。

The Influence Mechanism of Task Assignment Strategy on Production Efficiency

Wang Hui^1,2, Gong Qiguo¹, Yang Haili², An Jianhua³

1. School of Economics and Management, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049;
2. School of Economics, University of Chongqing Technology and Business, Chongqing 400060;
3. Zhuozhou Branch of Aerospace Information Co., Ltd, Zhuozhou 072750

Received:2019-04-10 Online:2020-09-28 Published:2020-09-30

摘要/Abstract

摘要： 最近的研究表明，人在运营系统中扮演关键角色，学习、工作负载和团队工作能够显著地改变人的绩效。特别是，如何给员工分配任务被认为是提高效率的关键。本文提出了不同的任务经验影响员工效率的机制。本文使用某工厂车间包含47名员工和12178个任务集的数据来进行实证检验。结果发现，专业化任务在短期比多样性任务更高效，而多样性任务在长期比专业化任务更有优势。因此，在不同长度的工作周期中，合理的任务分配策略可以提高员工的生产效率。基于对员工在运营系统中作用的研究，本文的工作是对已有研究工作的有益补充。本文还揭示了制造企业可以通过简化任务和提高重复性来提高企业的生产效率。

关键词: 任务, 多样化, 专业化, 工作负载, 绩效

Abstract: Recent researches have shown that people play a key role in the operations system. Learning, workload and teamwork can significantly change people's performance. Particularly, how to assign tasks to employees is considered to be the key to improve their productivity. We propose the mechanism of how different task experiences affect employee productivity. This paper utilizes the data of a factory floor, including 12,178 task sets performed by 47 workers for empirical testing. Empirical findings show that specialization tasks are more efficient in the short-term than variety tasks, and variety tasks have advantages over specialized tasks in the long-term. Therefore, a reasonable task assignment strategy can increase employee productivity during different lengths of work cycle. On the role of employees in the operations system, our work is a useful complement to existing research work. This paper also reveals that manufacturing companies can increase productivity by making tasks very simple and highly repetitive.

Key words: tasks, diversification, specialization, workload, performance

王辉, 龚其国, 杨海丽, 安建华. 任务分配策略对生产效率的影响机制研究[J]. 管理评论, 2020, 32(9): 296-307.

Wang Hui, Gong Qiguo, Yang Haili, An Jianhua. The Influence Mechanism of Task Assignment Strategy on Production Efficiency[J]. Management Review, 2020, 32(9): 296-307.

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