Ergonomics and its application in management

Author: Liu Zhijian (Compiler)
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Publish Date: 2002-03-01
Features: Compared to the object-oriented management system of traditional organizations, modern organizations emphasize a human-oriented management approach. A key characteristic of this approach is the principle of fostering the common development of employees and the organization. This requires removing various obstacles that hinder the full realization of human potential. The most fundamental of these is ensuring that the machines used by people and the environments they work in are adapted to their physiological and psychological characteristics. This enables people to achieve safety, health, and comfort in their work and daily lives, while also achieving high efficiency in organizational operations. This is the content and purpose of ergonomics research and application.
As a textbook, this book selects representative content and elaborates on it from a management perspective. The content includes: basic concepts and knowledge of ergonomics, anthropometry and the application of measurement data, fatigue and its mitigation measures, how humans receive, process, and output information, and its application in management, ergonomics design of human-machine interfaces, ergonomics design of work environments, and the design and evaluation of human-machine systems.
This book can serve as a textbook for undergraduate and graduate students in management and engineering disciplines. It will also benefit practical management and design professionals, and can be used as a popular science reading material for readers from other disciplines.