The predictive qualities of operator characteristics for process control performance: The influence of personality and cognitive variables

Ergonomics

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 302-311

  Burkolter, Dina ^a   Kluge, Annette ^a   Sauer, Jürgen ^b   Ritzmann, Sandrina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST GALLEN   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FRIBOURG   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Individual characteristics; Performance; Personnel selection; Process control

Indexed keywords

COGNITIVE ABILITY; COGNITIVE FLEXIBILITY; CONTROL TASK; DECLARATIVE KNOWLEDGE; DIAGNOSTIC PERFORMANCE; HIERARCHICAL REGRESSION; INDIVIDUAL CHARACTERISTICS; PERFORMANCE; PERSONALITY TRAITS; PROCESS CONTROL PERFORMANCE; SELF EFFICACY; SIMULATED PROCESS; SYSTEM CONTROL; SYSTEM FAULTS; TESTING SESSIONS; TRAINING SESSIONS; WORK ENVIRONMENTS;

EMPLOYMENT; ENTERPRISE RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; HUMAN ENGINEERING; PERSONNEL; PERSONNEL SELECTION; PERSONNEL TRAINING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

PROCESS CONTROL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; JOB PERFORMANCE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OPERATOR; PERSONALITY; PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT; PREDICTION; PROCESS CONTROL; REACTION TIME; SELF CONCEPT; SIMULATION; STUDENT; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRAINING; CHEMICAL INDUSTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EDUCATION; MAN MACHINE INTERACTION; PROBLEM SOLVING;

ADOLESCENT; CHEMICAL INDUSTRY; COGNITION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MAN-MACHINE SYSTEMS; PERSONALITY; PERSONNEL SELECTION; PROBLEM SOLVING; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 67650388354     PISSN: 00140139     EISSN: 13665847     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00140130802376067     Document Type: Article

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