Increasing work-time influence: Consequences for flexibility, variability, regularity and predictability

Ergonomics

Volumn 55, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 440-449

  Nabe Nielsen, Kirsten ^a   Garde, Anne Helene ^b   Aust, Birgit ^b   Diderichsen, Finn ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b NATIONAL RESEARCH CENTRE FOR THE WORKING ENVIRONMENT   (Denmark)

Author keywords

flexibility; nurses; self scheduling; shift work; workplace interventions

Indexed keywords

FLEXIBILITY; NURSES; SELF-SCHEDULING; SHIFT WORK; WORKPLACE INTERVENTIONS;

SURVEYS;

SCHEDULING;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIOENGINEERING; ELDERLY CARE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NURSE; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PARAMEDICAL PERSONNEL; PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT; QUESTIONNAIRE; WORKPLACE;

ADULT; ALLIED HEALTH PERSONNEL; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES FOR THE AGED; HUMAN ENGINEERING; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NURSES; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; PERSONNEL STAFFING AND SCHEDULING; QUESTIONNAIRES; SELECTION BIAS; WORKPLACE;

EID: 84859169027     PISSN: 00140139     EISSN: 13665847     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00140139.2011.646321     Document Type: Article

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