Tinkering with technology: Human factors, work redesign, and professionals in workplace innovation

Human Factors and Ergonomics In Manufacturing

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 61-82

  Badham, Richard ^a   Ehn, Pelle ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

^b MALMÖ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROFESSIONAL ASPECTS; STRATEGIC PLANNING; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS; WORK SIMPLIFICATION;

TRIAL AND ERROR METHODS; WORKPLACE INNOVATIONS;

ERGONOMICS;

EID: 0033876895     PISSN: 10908471     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1520-6564(200024)10:1<61::AID-HFM4>3.0.CO;2-O     Document Type: Article

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