Healthy Work Organization

Details

• Personal Author:
  DeJoy DM ; Griffin-Blake MS ; Wilson MG
• Description:
  Work organization refers to the way work processes are structured and managed, including scheduling, job design, interpersonal aspects, management style, organizational characteristics, and related topics. Healthy work organization is a logical outgrowth of work organization and represents the idea that (a) it should be possible to identify a set of job and organizational dimensions or factors that characterize the healthy organization, and (b) such workplaces should have safer, healthier, more productive workers, and superior profitability and market success. In most respects, the basic concept of healthy work organization falls within the scope of macroergonomics. Macroergonomics emphasizes a top-down sociotechnical systems approach to the overall design of organizations, work systems, jobs, and related human-environment interfaces (Hendrick 1991). Microergonomics, in contrast, focuses more on the immediate human-machine interface and the design of specific tasks, jobs, and workstations. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Ergonomics Occupational Health Safety Workplace
• Keywords:
  Work Environment Worker Health Work Experience Work Organization Work Performance Work Schedules
• ISBN:
  9780429134845
• Publisher:
  CRC Press
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Grant
• Genre:
  Book
• Place as Subject:
  Georgia ; OSHA Region 4
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20060291
• Citation:
  International encyclopedia of ergonomics and human factors, second edition. Karwowski W ed. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press, 2006 Mar; :2134-2138
• Editor(s):
  Karwowski W
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2006
• Performing Organization:
  University of Georgia Research Foundation Inc., Athens, Georgia
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Start Date:
  19990930
• Source Full Name:
  International encyclopedia of ergonomics and human factors, second edition
• End Date:
  20030929
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:618f3cdb853be61a2a82659a22f3fec92461c25a6e0a5be4b377fbd64f77d430c8b53694f3372399e68ab794d8940d2a2b4ff9979f92e819f8eb9d1f6d13166f
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/224241/cdc_224241_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 313.70 KB ]