Organizational and Safety Impacts of Office Work and Telecommuting: a Macroergonomics Perspective
conference paper
This panel emphasizes and discusses the importance of understanding the organizational factors that impact office and computer work, whether a person works in a conventional office environment or in an alternative work environment, such as telework or virt al office. Overall, the focus and theme of the panel will be to examine in-depth the influences that work organization, senior management commitment, worker involvement, and work environment have on individual, group and organizational effectiveness and quality of work life among office and computer workers. Conceptual models and approaches based on a macroergonomics perspective will also be discussed and presented, as they are applied to each research field study and organizational practice. Panelists will present their topic area and abstracts are provided below. After the short presentations, a 15-20 minute discussion will occur. This interactive engagement will be led by the session chair who will also provide a summary of the key points at the conclusion of the panel session.
TNO Identifier
291930
ISBN
0-976843-1-5
Publisher
IEA
Source title
Human factors in organizational design and management IX: proceedings of the ninth International Symposium Human Factors in Organzational Design and Management Guarja, San Paulo, Brazil, March 19-21, 2008
Editor(s)
Sznelwar, L.I.
Mascia F.C.
Montedo, U.B.
Mascia F.C.
Montedo, U.B.
Place of publication
Santa Monica
Pages
531
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