Determinants of business sustainability: An ergonomics perspective

Ergonomics

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 273-301

  Genaidy, Ash M ^a,b   Sequeira, Reynold ^a   Rinder, Magda M ^b   A Rehim, Amal D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

^b WorldTek Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Business sustainability; Human and enterprise performance; Improvement; Process health and safety; Work performance

Indexed keywords

BUSINESS SUSTAINABILITY; HUMAN AND ENTERPRISE PERFORMANCE; IMPROVEMENT; PROCESS HEALTH AND SAFETY; WORK PERFORMANCE;

EMPLOYMENT; ERGONOMICS; MANAGERS; PERSONNEL; PRODUCTIVITY; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

OCCUPATIONAL RISKS;

ARTICLE; COMMERCIAL PHENOMENA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EMPLOYEE; ERGONOMICS; JOB PERFORMANCE; JOB SATISFACTION; JOB STRESS; MANAGER; MUSCULOSKELETAL PAIN; OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY; POSITIVE FEEDBACK; PRODUCTIVITY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITY CONTROL; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; SHIFT WORKER; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; WORK ENVIRONMENT; WORKER; WORKPLACE; HUMAN; MAN MACHINE INTERACTION; MATERIALS; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; SAFETY;

COMMERCE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EFFICIENCY; EFFICIENCY, ORGANIZATIONAL; HUMANS; JOB SATISFACTION; MAN-MACHINE SYSTEMS; MANUFACTURED MATERIALS; SAFETY MANAGEMENT;

EID: 67650400491     PISSN: 00140139     EISSN: 13665847     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00140130802376042     Document Type: Article

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