Learning curves (LCs) are deemed effective tools for monitoring the performance of workers
exposed to a new task. LCs provide a mathematical representation of the learning process …

Industry 4.0 has ushered in a new era of process automation, thus redefining the role of
people and altering existing workplaces into unknown formats. The number of robots in the …

Factors such as repetitiveness of work, required application of forces, handling of heavy
loads, and awkward, static postures expose assembly line workers to risks of …

Trends in global working life suggest that the occurrence of jobs characterized by long-
lasting low-level loads or repetitive operations is increasing. More physical “variation” is …

Supervisory control environments, such as the NASA control room can induce high workload
levels in situations where a single error is capable of costing millions of dollars. An …

Early investigations of the learning phenomenon focused on the behavior of individual
subjects who were learning-by-doing. These investigations revealed that the time required …

The competitiveness of modern manufacturing systems is based on a high production rate
and a high level of flexibility. Despite the high level of automation achieved in production …

Effective strategies must be developed to reduce socioeconomic inequalities in health. Most
efforts take place in isolation, and only the UK experience has been discussed widely in …

This study applies the concept of job specialization and job rotation based on early
principles of job design in solving employees' perception of job burnout, using employees of …

Across three decades in both Britain and the United States, surveys indicate that women
must work harder than men do. Using data from the 1997 Skills Survey of the Employed …