Search Results - subject:"Work Design"

Compatibility as guiding principle for ergonomics work design and preventive occupational health and safety

Strasser, Helmut - In: Zeitschrift für Arbeitswissenschaft 76 (2021) 3, pp. 243-277

frustration. All in all, the center core competency, which reflects the major significant function of the ergonomist in work … design, consists in determining the compatibility of human capacity and planned or existing demands of work. In order to … occupational diseases and complaints, and has a positive effect on overall system performance. Besides presenting examples of work …

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Arbeitsintensität und ihre Determinanten. Eine Übersicht über das Analysepotential von Erwerbstätigenbefragungen

Hünefeld, Lena; Ahlers, Elke; Vogel, Serife Erol; … - In: Zeitschrift für Arbeitswissenschaft 76 (2021) 1, pp. 1-9

Eine langanhaltende hohe Arbeitsintensität kann eine gesundheitsgefährdende Belastung für Beschäftigte darstellen. Für eine angemessene Gestaltung der Arbeit sind Kenntnisse von Determinanten dauerhaft erhöhter Arbeitsintensität von zentraler Bedeutung. Dieser Beitrag beschäftigt sich...

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Exposure to psychosocial risk factors in the gig economy: A systematic review

Bérastégui, Pierre - 2021

The 'gig economy' refers to a market system in which companies or individual requesters hire workers to perform short assignments. These transactions are mediated through online labour platforms, either outsourcing work to a geographically dispersed crowd or allocating work to individuals in a...

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The Quality Distribution of Jobs and the Structure of Wages in Search Equilibrium

Davis, Steven J. - 2021

When match formation is costly and wage determination is decentralized, privately optimal investments in job and worker quality diverge from socially efficient outcomes. To explore this issue, I consider search equilibrium environments with endogenous quality distributions for jobs and workers....

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What'S Driving the New Economy : The Benefits of Workplace Innovation

Black, Sandra E.; Lynch, Lisa M. - 2021

Using a unique nationally representative sample of U.S. establishments surveyed in 1993 and 1996, we examine the relationship between workplace innovations and establishment productivity and wages. We match plant level practices with plant level productivity and wage outcomes and estimate...

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The Donut Effect of COVID-19 on Cities

Ramani, Arjun; Bloom, Nicholas - 2021

Using data from the US Postal Service and Zillow, we quantify the effect of Covid- 19 on migration patterns and real estate markets within and across US cities. We find two key results. First, within large US cities, households and businesses have moved from the dense central business districts...

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How to Compete : The Impact of Workplace Practices and Information Technology on Productivity

Black, Sandra E.; Lynch, Lisa M. - 2021

Using data from a unique nationally representative sample of businesses, the Educational Quality of the Workforce National Employers Survey (EQW-NES), matched with the Bureau of the Census' Longitudinal Research Database (LRD), we examine the impact of workplace practices, information technology...

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Exposure to Psychosocial Risk Factors in the Gig Economy : A Systematic Review

Bérastégui, Pierre - 2021

The ‘gig economy’ refers to a market system in which companies or individual requesters hire workers to perform short assignments. These transactions are mediated through online labour platforms, either outsourcing work to a geographically dispersed crowd or allocating work to individuals in...

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Workplace Mediation : An Irish Study

Kenny, Treasa - 2021

This paper presents the results of the first systematic study of workplace mediators in Ireland. It examines the characteristics and features of workplace mediation using a mixed methods study. The research identified, for the first time, the active population of workplace mediators in Ireland....

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Crowdworking in France and Germany

Belletti, Chiara; Erdsiek, Daniel; Laitenberger, Ulrich; … - 2021

Crowd work refers to the practice of assigning tasks and projects undertaken for payment to online contributors via digital platforms. We use data from a recent survey among companies in Germany and France to explore the economic relevance and potential barriers of this phenomenon from the...

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