International Journal of Engineering and Innovative Research

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Efficiency is one of the most important elements of competition. In order for the enterprises to maintain their competitiveness in the market, it is inevitable that they reduce the unit costs of the products they produce and increase the efficiency, depending on the collected study information. At the same time, it is important for businesses to know which product, how and in what time they produce so that they can use their resources in the best way. Work study; It is carried out in order to determine how a job is carried out with low capital, and to increase production profitability by using labor and equipment in the most appropriate way. Especially in the furniture sector, efficiency analysis is gaining importance with the increasing costs. Not enough work has been done in this area. For this reason, in this study, the effect of work and time study on productivity was investigated in a furniture factory. For this purpose, a survey study was conducted in the form of face-to-face interviews with 90 people working as workers in the Imaj Furniture Factory operating in the province of Isparta. Survey forms consist of two separate parts. In the first part, there are questions about the demographic characteristics of the employees, and in the second part, there are a total of 40 questions to be answered by the employees. The survey results were interpreted using the SPSS 17 statistical analysis program. All collected data were evaluated using frequency analysis and Chi-square test. As a result of this research, some statistical results were obtained showing the productivity improvement with the work and time study in the factory.