A strategy for improving worker satisfaction and job attitudes in a repetitive industrial task: Application of production standards and performance feedback

Ergonomics

Volumn 46, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 466-481

  Shikdar, Ashraf A ^a   Das, Biman ^b  

^a SULTAN QABOOS UNIVERSITY   (Oman)

^b DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Assigned standard; Participative standard; Performance feedback; Repetitive industrial task; Worker job attitudes; Worker satisfaction

Indexed keywords

ERGONOMICS; PERFORMANCE; PERSONNEL; PRODUCTION CONTROL;

INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTION; PERFORMANCE FEEDBACK;

JOB SATISFACTION;

ABSENTEEISM; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ERGONOMICS; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTION; INDUSTRIAL WORKER; JOB PERFORMANCE; JOB SATISFACTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT; SALARY; STANDARD; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; WORK ENVIRONMENT; WORKPLACE;

ADULT; ATTITUDE; CANADA; EFFICIENCY; ENVIRONMENT, CONTROLLED; FEEDBACK; FEMALE; FISH PRODUCTS; GOALS; HUMAN ENGINEERING; HUMANS; INDUSTRY; JOB SATISFACTION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTIVATION; QUESTIONNAIRES; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS;

EID: 0038392741     PISSN: 00140139     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0014013021000057006     Document Type: Article

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