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Human Resource Management and Macroergonomics

Work systems are becoming more complex, creating numerous challenges for those involved in making decisions that affect the design of work systems … Human factors and ergonomics (HFE) has responded to this challenge by embracing and adapting models and concepts that incorporate the organizational and sociotechnical context of work such as macroergonomics.

P. Carayon et al.2015

INTRODUCTION

In addition to the influence of the physical design of workspaces and the larger work environment, a person’s performance and well-being are influenced by many social and organizational factors. Job satisfaction is a function of the tasks that a person must perform, work schedules, and whether the person’s ...

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