Unit 7 - PRODUCTION METHODS AND SPECIALISATION

PRODUCTION METHODS

• JOB PRODUCTION involves making a good specifically to order. It is expensive but produces high quality, individual goods. Hand crafts are an example of this.
• BATCH PRODUCTION involves making goods in groups. Newspapers are an example of this.
• FLOW PRODUCTION involves mass production on a production line. This is the opposite of job production because it is cheap but tends to produce poorer quality ‘identical’ goods.

SPECIALISATION

Usually follows from mass production. Workers specialise in one job that they do best. It is also called the DIVISION OF LABOUR. It is a cheaper and more efficient way of producing; workers get better as they specialise and they do not ‘waste time’ moving between jobs. It can become very boring for workers to specialise however and they may become de-motivated and work with less enthusiasm, go on strike or leave the company.

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