Job rotation - Implications for old and impaired assembly line workers

Occupational Ergonomics

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 67-74

  Weichel, Julia ^a   Stanic, Sanjin ^a   Enriquez Diaz, José Alonso ^a   Frieling, Ekkehart ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KASSEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

automotive industry; impairments; Job rotation; older employees

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954780134     PISSN: 13599364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3233/OER-2010-0172     Document Type: Article

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