The Functional State Assessment as the Psychological Safety Marker of the Offshore Production Platform Workers

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yana Korneeva ◽  
Natalia Simonova
Keyword(s):  
Functional State ◽  
High Performance ◽  
Risk Group ◽  
Psychological Safety ◽  
Psychological Testing ◽  
Well Being ◽  
General Level ◽  
Environment Impact ◽  
Functional States ◽  
Low Performance

Abstract The present study is devoted to the functional states’ identification and description as the psychological safety marker of offshore oil-producing platform workers with the fly-in-fly-out work organization. This will allow identifying an employee's risk group with low psychological safety for the development of measures to improve it, preserve their health and work efficiency. The research was carried out by means of a scientific expedition in April 2019 during the entire fly-in-fly-out visit to the offshore ice- resistant platform in the Caspian Sea. It was attended by 50 employees (average age 36.17 ± 1.064, average work experience on a fly-in-fly-out basis 7.97 ± 0.839, fly-in-fly-out period - 14 days). Research methods are: 1) instrumental psychophysiological methods for assessing the state on the devices «AngioScan» (stress level) and «Psychophysiologist» (operator performance, functional state level, functional reserves level); 2) psychological testing methods are M. Luscher's color test and the "Well-being. Activity. Insistence" questioning. Psychological testing of employee's personality traits. Statistical analysis was performed using descriptive statistics and multivariate methods using the SPSS 23.00 software package. As the study result, all employees were divided into two large groups according to functional states indicators: 1) a group with high performance, since these employees have optimal speed, high quality work performance and good health; 2) a group with low performance, because with a favorable general state of health and the performing tasks speed, employees show a low performance. The relationship between the two groups oil-producing platform employees’ subjective characteristics of efficiency and safety studied. It was found that employees with high performance are adapted to the negative environment impact and are characterized by high psychological safety. The second group representatives with low performance give higher assessments of the professional situations danger and are not satisfied with the work schedule, and therefore belong to the risk group and require additional measures to ensure psychological safety. Personal markers of attribution to groups with different efficiency are independence, cyclothymic character accentuation type, planning and the general level of subjective control.

Functional States as a Psychological Safety Component of the Offshore Oil Production Platform Employees at the Rotational Labor Organization in the Caspian Sea

2021 ◽  
pp. 85-91
Author(s):  
Ya.A. Korneeva ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Caspian Sea ◽  
Occupational Safety ◽  
Psychological Safety ◽  
Psychological Testing ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Individual Performance ◽  
Environment Impact ◽  
The Caspian Sea ◽  
Functional States ◽  
Offshore Oil

The study is devoted to identifying and describing the features of functional states as a component of the employees psychological safety, as well as occupational safety during fly-in-fly-out regime on an offshore oil platform. The scientific expedition worked in April 2019 during the entire fly-in-fly-out visit on the platform in the Caspian Sea. 50 employees took part, whose average age was 36.17 ± 1.064 years, the average work experience by the fly-in-fly-out method was 7.97 ± 0.839 years. The duration of the rotation period is 14 days. Research methods are: hardware psychophysiological and psychological testing. The first ones were used to assess the state: the level of stress (the AngioScan device), the operator efficiency, the level of the functional state and functional reserves (the Psychophysiologist device). For psychological testing, the color test of M. Lusher and the questionnaire of self-assessment of states «Well-being. Activity. Mood» were selected. Statistical analysis of the research results was performed with the help of descriptive statistics and multidimensional methods using IBM SPSS Statistics 23.0 software package. All the employees are divided into two groups according to the individual performance: the first cluster with high performance, the second cluster with reduced performance. As a result of studying the relationship between the efficiency and occupational safety subjective characteristics it was found that employees of the first cluster (with high personal efficiency) are better adapted to the negative environment impact and are characterized by high psychological safety and high occupational safety. Representatives of the second cluster (with reduced personal efficiency) are not satisfied with the work schedule, give higher assessments of hazard of professional situations, but at the same time commit more violations of occupational safety. For these reasons, the employees with reduced efficiency (the second cluster) belong to the risk group, which requires additional measures from the managers to ensure their psychological safety and improve occupational safety at work.

scholarly journals Features of the functional state of the human body in extreme professional environment

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 516-532
Author(s):  
Natalya Vlasenko ◽  
Irina Makarova ◽  
Alla Aksyonova
Keyword(s):  
Heart Rate ◽  
Heart Rate Variability ◽  
Functional State ◽  
High Performance ◽  
Electrophysiological Study ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Subjective Assessment ◽  
Length Of Service ◽  
Service Experience ◽  
Professional Environment

Assessment and prediction of the functional state of specialists in an extreme professional environment is a physiological justification for the organization of labor to maintain the high performance of specialists. The purpose of the work is psycho diagnostic and electrophysiological study of the functional state of firefighter-rescuers with different service lives in the Federal Firefighting Service of the Ministry of Emergencies in the Tver region, taking into account the daily dynamics. Materials and methods: the survey involved 235 male rescue firefighters aged 25 to 45 years with a service experience from 1 to 22 years. All subjects were divided into three groups depending on the length of service. To assess the functional state, we used a questionnaire with scales of well-being, activity and mood, and a method of heart rate variability. Results: the subjective assessment on the scale of the questionnaire was optimistic, homogeneous and quite rigid. Analysis of heart rate variability showed a more heterogeneous picture. When assessing the daily dynamics, a vagotonic shift was detected in most firefighter-rescuers. Correlation analysis revealed balanced adequate connections between the self-assessment of the functional state and the hardware diagnosis of heart rate variability only for firefighter-rescuers with 7–15 years of service experience, which corresponds to the stage of formed professionalism.

scholarly journals Heroes or Villains? The Dark Side of Charismatic Leadership and Unethical Pro-organizational Behavior

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (15) ◽  
pp. 5546
Author(s):  
Xue Zhang ◽  
Liang Liang ◽  
Guyang Tian ◽  
Yezhuang Tian
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Behavior ◽  
Social Information Processing ◽  
High Performance ◽  
Psychological Safety ◽  
Charismatic Leadership ◽  
Dark Side ◽  
Negative Consequences ◽  
Workplace Behavior ◽  
Processing Theory ◽  
Time Lagged

Although prior research has emphasized the disproportional contributions to organizations of charismatic leadership, an emerging line of research has started to examine the potentially negative consequences. In this paper, a theoretical framework was proposed for a study of unethical pro-organization behavior through psychological safety based on social information processing theory, which reveals the detrimental effect that charismatic leadership can have on workplace behavior. To explore this negative possibility, a time-lagged research design was applied for the hypotheses to be verified using 214 pieces of data collected from a service company in China. According to the results, unethical pro-organizational behavior was indirectly influenced by charismatic leadership through psychological safety. Moreover, when employees experienced high performance pressure, charismatic leadership was positively associated with unethical pro-organizational behavior through psychological safety. The implications of these findings were analyzed from the perspectives of charismatic leadership theory and organizational ethical activities to alter the unethical pro-organizational behavior.

scholarly journals Can artificially selected phenotypes influence a component of field fitness? Thermal selection and fly performance under thermal extremes

2006 ◽  
Vol 274 (1611) ◽  
pp. 771-778 ◽  
Author(s):  
Torsten Nygaard Kristensen ◽  
Volker Loeschcke ◽  
Ary A Hoffmann
Keyword(s):  
High Performance ◽  
Quantitative Traits ◽  
Genetic Basis ◽  
Selected Lines ◽  
Resistant Lines ◽  
Correlated Patterns ◽  
Different Temperatures ◽  
Evolutionary Trajectories ◽  
Low Performance ◽  
Selected Traits

Artificially selected lines are widely used to investigate the genetic basis of quantitative traits and make inferences about evolutionary trajectories. Yet, the relevance of selected traits to field fitness is rarely tested. Here, we assess the relevance of thermal stress resistance artificially selected in the laboratory to one component of field fitness by investigating the likelihood of adult Drosophila melanogaster reaching food bait under different temperatures. Lines resistant to heat reached the bait more often than controls under hot and cold conditions, but less often at intermediate temperatures, suggesting a fitness cost of increased heat resistance but not at temperature extremes. Cold-resistant lines were more common at baits than controls under cold as well as hot field conditions, and there was no cost at intermediate temperatures. One of the replicate heat-resistant lines was caught less often than the others under hot conditions. Direct and correlated patterns of responses in laboratory tests did not fully predict the low performance of the heat selected lines at intermediate temperatures, nor the high performance of the cold selected lines under hot conditions. Therefore, lines selected artificially not only behaved partly as expected based on laboratory assays but also evolved patterns only evident in the field releases.

ADDITIVE-VETO MODELS FOR CHOICE AND RANKING MULTICRITERIA DECISION PROBLEMS

2013 ◽  
Vol 30 (06) ◽  
pp. 1350026 ◽  
Author(s):  
ADIEL TEIXEIRA DE ALMEIDA
Keyword(s):  
High Performance ◽  
Additive Model ◽  
Additive Models ◽  
Numerical Application ◽  
Multicriteria Decision ◽  
Decision Methods ◽  
Overall Evaluation ◽  
Low Performance ◽  
Ranking Problems ◽  
Multicriteria Decision Problems

Using additive models for aggregation of criteria is an important procedure in many multicriteria decision methods. This compensatory approach, which scores the alternatives straightforwardly, may have significant drawbacks. For instance, the Decision Maker (DM) may prefer not to select alternatives which have a very low performance in whatever criterion. In contrast, such an alternative may have the best overall evaluation, since the additive model may compensate this low performance in one of the criteria as a result of high performance in other criteria. Thus, additive-veto models are proposed with a view to considering the possibility of vetoing alternatives in such situations, particularly for choice and ranking problems. A numerical application illustrates the use of such models, with a detailed discussion related to real practical problems. Moreover, the results obtained from a numerical simulation show that it is not so rare for a veto of the best alternative to occur in the additive model. This is of considerable relevance depending on the DM's preference structure.

scholarly journals Motivational system modulates brain responses during exploratory decision-making

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Chia-Wei Li ◽  
Carol Yeh-Yun Lin ◽  
Ting-Ting Chang ◽  
Nai-Shing Yen ◽  
Danchi Tan
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
High Performance ◽  
Behavioral Activation ◽  
Motivational Orientation ◽  
Performance Group ◽  
Reward Seeking ◽  
Brain Responses ◽  
Low Performance ◽  
Risk Choice ◽  
The Brain

AbstractManagers face risk in explorative decision-making and those who are better at such decisions can achieve future viability. To understand what makes a manager effective at explorative decision-making requires an analysis of the manager’s motivational characteristics. The behavioral activation/inhibition system (BAS/BIS), fitting the motivational orientation of “approach” or “avoidance,” can affect individual decision-making. However, very little is known about the neural correlates of BAS/BIS orientation and their interrelationship with the mental activity during explorative decision-making. We conducted an fMRI study on 111 potential managers to investigate how the brain responses of explorative decision-making interact with BAS/BIS. Participants were separated into high- and low-performance groups based on the median exploration-score. The low-performance group showed significantly higher BAS than that of the high-performance group, and its BAS had significant negative association with neural networks related to reward-seeking during explorative decision-making. Moreover, the BIS of the low-performance group was negatively correlated with the activation of cerebral regions responding to risk-choice during explorative decision-making. Our finding showed that BAS/BIS was associated with the brain activation during explorative decision-making only in the low-performance group. This study contributed to the understanding of the micro-foundations of strategically relevant decision-making and has an implication for management development.

Empowerment e intensificazione? Gli effetti dei nuovi sistemi di lavoro sui lavoratori1

2012 ◽  
pp. 45-75
Author(s):  
Torre Edoardo Della
Keyword(s):  
Economic Performance ◽  
High Performance ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Empirical Literature ◽  
New Work ◽  
Work Systems ◽  
High Performance Work Systems ◽  
Sceptical View

The debate about the effects of new work systems - the so-called High Performance Work Systems (HPWS) - in terms of improving economic performance and productivity of the enterprise is rich in contributions and a substantial convergence is recorded in saying that, in the presence of a well thought-out and properly implemented system, the effects are positive. More neglected and controversial are the effects that these practices have for the well-being of workers. Through a review of theoretical and empirical literature on the topic, this paper analyses the traditional opposition between supporters of the "empowerment view" and supporters of the "intensification view". The former consider the HPWS such as win-win solutions for enterprises and workers, while the latter believe that the HPWS are a managerial expedient that aims to intensify the pace of work and the efforts required to workers. The results show that both positions are sustainable and attach to internal tensions related to HPWS (i.e. control/ discretion, responsibility/stress, etc.) the uncertainty of the results found from the literature. This interpretation finds in the intermediate "sceptical view" the more careful position to adopt and suggests to pay greater attention to the measurement adopted to analyze these relationships and to the characteristics of the employees and of the context in which HPWS are introduced. Finally, some directions for the development of future researches in this area are drawn.

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