scholarly journals Perceived Fit and User Behavior in Activity-Based Work Environments

2021 ◽  
pp. 001391652199548
Author(s):  
Jan Gerard Hoendervanger ◽  
Nico W. Van Yperen ◽  
Mark P. Mobach ◽  
Casper J. Albers
Keyword(s):  
User Behavior ◽  
Experience Sampling ◽  
Work Environments ◽  
Work Setting ◽  
Perceived Fit ◽  
High Concentration ◽  
Work Settings ◽  
Study Experience ◽  
Open Work

While activity-based working is gaining popularity worldwide, research shows that workers frequently experience a misfit between the task at hand and their work setting. In the current study, experience sampling data were used to examine how perceived fit in activity-based work environments is related to user behavior (i.e., the use of work settings and setting-switching). We found that workers’ perceived fit was higher when they used closed rather than open work settings for individual high-concentration work. Furthermore, more frequent setting-switching was related to higher perceived fit. Unexpectedly, however, this relation was observed only among workers low in activity-switching. These findings indicate that user behavior may indeed be relevant to creating fit in activity-based work environments. To optimize workers’ perceived fit, it seems to be particularly important to facilitate and stimulate the use of closed work settings for individual high-concentration work.

17. Boundaries or overlap: An examination of the community-oriented clinical practice of community medicine specialists and family/general practitioners

2007 ◽  
Vol 30 (4) ◽  
pp. 36
Author(s):  
M. L. Russell ◽  
L. McIntyre
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Primary Care ◽  
Clinical Practice ◽  
Community Health ◽  
Royal College ◽  
Community Medicine ◽  
Work Setting ◽  
Public Health Medicine ◽  
Work Settings ◽  
Main Work

We compared the work settings and “community-oriented clinical practice” of Community Medicine (CM) specialists and family physicians/general practitioners (FP). We conducted secondary data analysis of the 2004 National Physician Survey (NPS) to examine main work setting and clinical activity reported by 154 CM (40% of eligible CM in Canada) and 11,041 FP (36% of eligible FP in Canada). Text data from the specialist questionnaire related to “most common conditions that you treat” were extracted from the Master database for CM specialists, and subjected to thematic analysis and coded. CM specialists were more likely than FP to engage in “community medicine/public health” (59.7% vs 15.3%); while the opposite was found for primary care (13% vs. 78.2%). CM specialists were less likely to indicate a main work setting of private office/clinic/community health centre/community hospital than were FP (13.6% vs. 75.6%). Forty-five percent of CM provided a response to “most common conditions treated” with the remainder either leaving the item blank or indicating that they did not treat individual patients. The most frequently named conditions in rank order were: psychiatric disorders; public health program/activity; respiratory problems; hypertension; and metabolic disorders (diabetes). There is some overlap in the professional activities and work settings of CM specialists and FP. The “most commonly treated conditions” suggest that some CM specialists may be practicing primary care as part of the Royal College career path of “community-oriented clinical practice.” However the “most commonly treated conditions” do not specifically indicate an orientation of that practice towards “an emphasis on health promotion and disease prevention” as also specified by the Royal College for that CM career path. This raises questions about the appropriateness of the current training requirements and career paths as delineated for CM specialists by the Royal College of Physicians & Surgeons of Canada. Bhopal R. Public health medicine and primary health care: convergent, divergent, or parallel paths? J Epidemiol Community Health 1995; 49:113-6. Pettersen BJ, Johnsen R. More physicians in public health: less public health work? Scan J Public Health 2005; 33:91-8. Stanwell-Smith R. Public health medicine in transition. J Royal Society of Medicine 2001; 94(7):319-21.

scholarly journals A snapshot of potential: Using situational assessments to capture the moment

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-4
Author(s):  
Jessica Short
Keyword(s):  
Work Environments ◽  
Job Seekers ◽  
Work Settings ◽  
Hands On ◽  
Work Tasks ◽  
Support Employment ◽  
Employment Support ◽  
Situational Assessment ◽  
The Moment ◽  
Employment Choices

BACKGROUND: A contributing factor to the higher unemployment rates of adults with disabilities is the limited opportunities to gain insight into employment options. Assessments are often used to learn a job seekers skills, preferences, and support needs. Situational assessments in real work settings create hands-on experiences with a variety of work tasks and work environments which better inform the employment choices of job seekers. METHODS: This article explores situational assessments and introduces a tool designed for the employment support professional conducting the assessment to capture information necessary to make more informed employment choices. RESULTS: This article defines situational assessments while introducing a person-centered tool to support employment support professionals to effectively document and analyze the observations of each situational assessment.

scholarly journals The Female Sex Work Industry in a District of India in the Context of HIV Prevention

2012 ◽  
Vol 2012 ◽  
pp. 1-10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Raluca Buzdugan ◽  
Shiva S. Halli ◽  
Jyoti M. Hiremath ◽  
Krishnamurthy Jayanna ◽  
T. Raghavendra ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sex Work ◽  
Sex Workers ◽  
Female Sex Workers ◽  
Work Setting ◽  
Vulnerability Factors ◽  
Modes Of Operation ◽  
Sex Worker ◽  
Work Settings ◽  
Female Sex ◽  
Female Sex Work

HIV prevalence in India remains high among female sex workers. This paper presents the main findings of a qualitative study of the modes of operation of female sex work in Belgaum district, Karnataka, India, incorporating fifty interviews with sex workers. Thirteen sex work settings (distinguished by sex workers' main places of solicitation and sex) are identified. In addition to previously documented brothel, lodge, street,dhaba(highway restaurant), and highway-based sex workers, under-researched or newly emerging sex worker categories are identified, including phone-based sex workers, parlour girls, and agricultural workers. Women working in brothels, lodges,dhabas, and on highways describe factors that put them at high HIV risk. Of these,dhabaand highway-based sex workers are poorly covered by existing interventions. The paper examines the HIV-related vulnerability factors specific to each sex work setting. The modes of operation and HIV-vulnerabilities of sex work settings identified in this paper have important implications for the local programme.

scholarly journals The Dynamics of Prioritizing: How Actors Temporally Pattern Complex Role–Routine Ecologies

2020 ◽  
pp. 000183922094848
Author(s):  
Waldemar Kremser ◽  
Blagoy Blagoev
Keyword(s):  
Complex Problem ◽  
Project Team ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
Work Setting ◽  
Temporal Patterning ◽  
Temporal Coordination ◽  
Work Settings

This paper examines the emergence of temporal coordination among multiple interdependent routines in a complex work setting that does not allow for up-front scheduling. We propose that when actors continuously have to prioritize their expected contributions to multiple interdependent routines, they address this challenge by orienting not just toward routines but also toward person-roles. Drawing on an ethnographic study of an agile consulting project team confronted with continued scheduling failures, we demonstrate how the dynamics of prioritizing enabled the actors to resolve what at first appeared to be an irresolvable and highly complex problem of temporal coordination. We add to the literature on routine dynamics and temporality by setting forth the dynamics of prioritizing as an explanation for the temporal patterning of complex work settings. We introduce the notion of role–routine ecologies as a novel way to conceptualize such complex work settings and contribute to developing a performative theory of person-roles and their significance for coordinating.

scholarly journals Perceived fit in activity-based work environments and its impact on satisfaction and performance

2019 ◽  
Vol 65 ◽  
pp. 101339 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jan Gerard Hoendervanger ◽  
Nico W. Van Yperen ◽  
Mark P. Mobach ◽  
Casper J. Albers
Keyword(s):  
Work Environments ◽  
Perceived Fit ◽  
And Performance

scholarly journals Principle of Least Psychomotor Action: Modelling Situated Entropy in Optimization of Psychomotor Work Involving Human, Cyborg and Robot Workers

Entropy ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 20 (11) ◽  
pp. 836 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen Fox ◽  
Adrian Kotelba
Keyword(s):  
State Of The Art ◽  
Work Setting ◽  
Theoretical Studies ◽  
Psychomotor Skills ◽  
Future Of Work ◽  
Work Settings ◽  
Least Action ◽  
Principle Of Least Action ◽  
The Future ◽  
Relative Potential

Entropy in workplaces is situated amidst workers and their work. In this paper, findings are reported from a study encompassing psychomotor work by three types of workers: human, cyborg and robot; together with three aspects of psychomotor work: setting, composition and uncertainty. The Principle of Least Psychomotor Action (PLPA) is introduced and modelled in terms of situated entropy. PLPA is founded upon the Principle of Least Action. Situated entropy modelling of PLPA is informed by theoretical studies concerned with connections between information theory and thermodynamics. Four contributions are provided in this paper. First, the situated entropy of PLPA is modelled in terms of positioning, performing and perfecting psychomotor skills. Second, with regard to workers, PLPA is related to the state-of-the-art in human, cyborg and robot psychomotor skills. Third, with regard to work, situated entropy is related to engineering of work settings, work composition and work uncertainty. Fourth, PLPA and modelling situated entropy are related to debate about the future of work. Overall, modelling situated entropy is introduced as a means of objectively modelling relative potential of humans, cyborgs, and robots to carry out work with least action. This can introduce greater objectivity into debates about the future of work.

User Attitude towards Mandatory Use of Information Systems

2011 ◽  
pp. 1-18
Author(s):  
Xunhua Guo ◽  
Nan Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Information Systems ◽  
User Behavior ◽  
Population Level ◽  
Cultural Factors ◽  
Perceived Fit ◽  
Cultural Contexts ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
Adoption Research ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Mandatory Use

Accumulated literature on technology adoption research has suggested that cultural factors have important impacts on the cognition and behavior of information systems users. In this paper, the authors argue that cultural factors should be treated as aggregate characteristics at the population level instead of personal attributes at the individual level. The authors also propose that theoretical models could be developed for specific cultural contexts when examining IT/IS user behavior. In this regard, a model for analyzing user attitude toward mandatory use of information systems is proposed. Drawing on generally recognized cultural characteristics of China, three factors are introduced as determinants of user attitude—leader support, technology experience, and perceived fit. An empirical study is conducted with regard to the acceptance of a mobile municipal administration system in Beijing, China, for validating the proposed model with survey data and analyzing the adoption mechanism of the target system. The moderating roles of gender, age, and education level on the model are explored by interaction effect analyses and the findings provide helpful insights for related studies in other cultural contexts.

scholarly journals GENDERED AGEISM: OLDER WORKERS’ NARRATIVES ABOUT AGE

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. S570-S570
Author(s):  
Sarah A Vickerstaff ◽  
Mariska F van der Horst
Keyword(s):  
Data Base ◽  
Older Workers ◽  
White Collar ◽  
Blue Collar ◽  
Work Place ◽  
Work Setting ◽  
Work Settings ◽  
Gender And Work ◽  
Gender Based ◽  
The Right

Abstract Existing research has highlighted that ageism in the workplace may take gendered forms with women ‘never being the right age’ (Duncan & Loretto, 2004). It is further known that individuals have internalised age stereotypes and self-stereotype when being older themselves, also referred to as stereotype embodiment. In this work place based study, through analysis of older workers talk, we examine the extent to which narratives of age differ by gender and work setting. The data base includes 185 participants in five different work settings and different kinds of jobs: blue collar, white collar, managerial, manufacturing and services sectors. Whilst many of the fears about ‘being old’ at work are common across women and men there are some distinct nuances related to the kind of work that people do and others that we argue are gender based.

Personality, Self-Image and Informal Helping Processes in Work Settings

1982 ◽  
Vol 50 (3_suppl) ◽  
pp. 1295-1302 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ronald J. Burke
Keyword(s):  
Locus Of Control ◽  
Nursing Staff ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Work Setting ◽  
Internal Locus ◽  
Work Settings ◽  
Internal Locus Of Control ◽  
Self Confidence ◽  
Self Image

Two personality constructs (self-esteem, locus of control) and several aspects of self-image, e.g., Timidity, Abrasiveness, Perceptiveness, were related to several areas of helpers' and helpees' role behaviours in a work setting. Respondents were 136 nursing staff from a single hospital. Personality and self-image measures were more strongly related to helpers than helpees' role behaviour. Respondents with more self-esteem and internal locus of control were more active and satisfied with their helping roles. Respondents describing themselves as emotionally cold, abrasive, ineffectual, timid, not perceptive, and lacking self-confidence were less active and satisfied with their roles as helpers.

Sex Differences in Psychosocial Perceptions toward Naval Work Environments

1977 ◽  
Vol 44 (3_suppl) ◽  
pp. 1155-1161 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard F. Booth ◽  
Karen T. Lantz
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Sex Differences ◽  
Work Environment ◽  
Work Environments ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Work Settings ◽  
Enlisted Men ◽  
General Finding ◽  
Environment Scale ◽  
Psychosocial Climate

The Insel and Moos' Work Environment Scale was used to assess expectations ac the time of occupational entry and perceptions in training and on the job for 200 Navy enlisted men and 200 Navy enlisted women working in health care jobs. A comparison by sex of these variables showed that the men and women entered naval work environments with different expectations of what would be encountered, but that once they had experienced the actual psychosocial climate they tended to perceive both the training and job environments in a similar manner. An exception to this general finding indicated that Navy administrators may be using different techniques for supervising the behavior of men and women. Furthermore the men and women working in ward environments tended to perceive the psychosocial climate very differently in contrast to the less substantial sex differences found in psychosocial perceptions toward other paramedical work settings. A need for further research on the influence of sex differences on supervisor-subordinate relationships is noted.

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