One way to improve the productivity of knowledge workers is to increase their self-awareness about productivity at work through self-monitoring. Yet, little is known about expectations of, the experience with, and the impact of self-monitoring in the workplace. To address this gap, we studied software developers, as one community of knowledge workers. We used an iterative, user-feedbackdriven d...

BACKGROUND Despite numerous initiatives to improve the working environment for nursing aides, musculoskeletal disorders (pain) is still a considerable problem because of the prevalence, and pervasive consequences on the individual, the workplace and the society. Discrepancies between effort and effect of workplace health initiatives might be due to the fact that pain and the consequences of pai...

Hospital XYZ is located in an urban area of the United States. Over the past three years, Hospital XYZ cared for an average of 668 patients per year whom required precautionary measures be taken to protect the patient and/or staff. An average of 152 of these patients were assaultive, and as a result, an average of thirteen employees per year suffered recordable injuries due to the violent behav...

While guests in the office or a phone call can be pleasant surprises, in the wrong moment they may be disrupting a time of focused work and concentration. A lack of coordination between colleagues at the work place can lead to unwanted interruptions and result in an inefficient and unpleasant workplace. MATe (Mate for Awareness in Teams) is a pervasive, ambient intelligent computing framework c...

We investigated the effects of intranasal oxytocin (OXT) on trust and cooperation in borderline personality disorder (BPD), a disorder marked by interpersonal instability and difficulties with cooperation. Although studies in healthy adults show that intranasal OXT increases trust, individuals with BPD may show an altered response to exogenous OXT because the effects of OXT on trust and pro-soc...

The ubiquity of abusive supervision in the workplace, as well serious repercussions that come with it, has prompted scholars to investigate numerous dynamics this problem. This research examines circumstances which subordinates react supervisory behavior. study hypothesizes negative impacts associated impression unfairness and politics workplace toward a subordinate deviant attitude based on cu...