The Hawthorne studies were conducted in the 1920s and were the first studies to examine psychological components of job design. These studies were meant to explore the impact of lighting levels on productivity but found that more dynamic social systems among the employees had a greater impact. More current studies have determined that characteristics such as skill variety, job identity, job significance, autonomy, and feedback are important to workers. These characteristics are typical of which of the components of job design?

Harris fabrics computes its predetermined overhead rate annually on the basis of direct labor-hours. at the beginning of the year, it estimated that 34,000 direct labor-hours would be required for the period’s estimated level of production. the company also estimated $599,000 of fixed manufacturing overhead expenses for the coming period and variable manufacturing overhead of $3.00 per direct labor-hour. harris's actual manufacturing overhead for the year was $768,234 and its actual total direct labor was 34,500 hours.required: compute the company's predetermined overhead rate for the year. (round your answer to 2 decimal places.)