An Overview of Work Study in Textile Industry Introduction Productivity has now become an everyday watch word. It is crucial to the welfare of industrial firm as well as for the economic progress of the country. High productivity refers to doing the work in a shortest possible time with least expenditure on inputs without sacrificing quality and with minimum wastage of resources. Work-study forms the basis for work system design. The purpose of work design is to identify the most effective means of achieving necessary functions. This work-study aims at improving the existing and proposed ways of doing work and establishing standard times for work performance. Work-study is encompassed by two techniques, i.e., method study and work measurement. “Method study is the systematic recording and critical examination of existing and Proposed ways of doing work, as a means of developing and applying easier and more Effective methods and reducing costs.” “Work mea