themes, and in the United Kingdom, one theme has origins in United Kingdom legislation [Health and Safety at Work Act (HSWA), 1974] that promoted safe and healthy working environments. This theme puts the onus on the employer for the organization of the physical and psychosocial work domain. The other theme is related to the behavior, attitude, and lifestyle of the worker and is entrenched in p...

AD converters are the key components in the data acquisition systems. Therefore their accuracy is very important for end users. Teaching and practical experiments of the testing methods are time consuming and requires precise laboratory equipment with the access for students. This paper presents measuring workplace with real circuits of the AD converter. Workplace will contain two AD converters...

BACKGROUND The workplace is an important setting for health promotion including nutrition and physical activity behaviors to prevent obesity. This paper explores the relationship between workplace social environment and cultural factors and diet and physical activity (PA) behaviors and obesity among employees. METHODS Between 2012 and 2013, telephone interviews were conducted with participant...

Employees’ working environments in traditional organizations are characterized by siloed technologies, segregated physical spaces and asynchronous email communications. Behaviors, technologies and physical constraints in these workplaces result in a fundamental disconnect between what employees can accomplish and what companies need them to do in the digital era. Success in the digital era depe...

First and second wave digital divide research underemphasizes the digital labor force divide and overestimates the impact of access to and skill in digital technology. Such emphasis deprives digital divide scholarship of its democratizing potential by muting structural critique and recasting the divide as a problem of diffusion. To the extent that it promotes diffusion over equality, the digita...

This article presents an analysis of workplace health programme discourses within an international information technology company. Discourse refers to a system of statements that share a common force and coherence and which are socially constitutive. The representation of entities such as workplace health can be subject to competition between discourses. A critical discourse analysis was undert...

Well-being in the workplace is considered by many authors to be the outcome of the interaction between individual characteristics and those of the working and organizational environment. This study aims to understand the significance attributed to the concept of well-being in the workplace by employees, its influencing factors, and, among those, the role of individual psychological characterist...

In “the age of knowledge”, knowledge has become the main asset in solving issues and creating value in organizations. In this regard, “workplace reformation” actively participates in promoting knowledge creation. One of the key factors supporting knowledge creation is “the creation of BA”. In the workplace reformation process, when BA fosters the creation of knowledge, it is called “active BA”....

background: psychologically traumatic workplace events (known as critical incidents) occur within various work environments, with workgroups in certain industries vulnerable to multiple incidents. with the increasing prevalence of incidents in the usa, incident response is a growing practice area within occupational medicine, industrial psychology, occupational social work and other occupationa...

We describe the design of a collaborative cross-modal tool that supports visually-impaired and sighted coworkers to access and edit shared diagrams in real time and a case study of its use in a real world workplace environment. Our findings highlight the potential of cross-modal collaboration to improve workplace inclusion and identify initial challenges and opportunities for cross-modal design.