Cause Of Workers Research Articles

Analisis Disiplin Kerja Dalam Upaya Meningkatkan Kinerja Karyawan Di Pt Pegadaian Tanjung Uban

This study aims to: 1) To find out what causes employees to be less disciplined in working at PT Pegadaian Tanjung Uban, 2) To find out how efforts are made to improve employee performance at PT Pegadaian Tanjung Uban, 3) To find out what efforts are made in improving discipline in working at PT Pegadaian Tanjung Uban. The qualitative descriptive method was applied in this investigation. Data is collected in the field via observation, interview, and direct observation methods, therefore the data used are primary data and secondary data. This research looked at, NVIVO 12 Pro software was assisted in analyzing data. According to the findings of this study, the causes of workers are less disciplined due to lack of leadership firmness, lack of supervision, habits, quiet customer and absence of work. Meanwhile, efforts are made to improve employee performance that has a correlation value of 0.806178, namely at the work appraisal and work evaluation nodes. Furthermore, efforts to improve discipline in work that have a correlation value above 0.5, namely in nodes punishment and job training with a value of 0.921866. It is hoped that PT Pegadaian can continue to improve employee performance and employee discipline at work.

Causal Effects of Safety Measure Practices on Safety Performance and Project Performance

Although many improvements in the prevention of fatalities in construction industry, however, the fatality rates in Malaysian Construction Industry continue at an unacceptable rate. Data extracted from Department of Occupational Safety & Health (DOSH) Malaysia, indicated that Safety Measure Practices (SMP) were the main cause of workers’ high fatality. The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship of SMP, Safety Performance, and Project Performance at Occupational Health & Safety Management System (OHSMS) certified Malaysia construction projects. This study was conducted using purpose sampling, a self-administrated questionnaire at 31 project sites consisting of 401 respondents within the safety management team members in the state of Selangor, Malaysia. The data analysis in this study was carried out using SPSS Amos (v21) of IBM. The findings show that Safety Rules & Procedures, Safety Acts and Adoption of OHSMS of SMP are positively related to safety performance and project performance. Furthermore, these elements of safety components shall upgrade company image and improve financial gains of the project. Within the scope of the unique nature of the project, implementing SMP in OHSMS environment, with special reference to Safety Rules & Procedures and Safety Acts of the workers results in less workplace accidents. Also, project performance (company competitiveness and financial performance) will be enhanced through better safety performance. The key findings may prompt the top management and project managers to re-think the current conservative approach to run the projects where safety issues are fully responsible by the safety team. Top management need to top-up resources to manage safety as like other functions of the business. Project managers need to manage safety besides the other functions of the organization such as production, maintenance, marketing and finance to achieve business objectives.

Dual-Attitude Decision-Making Processes of Construction Worker Safety Behaviors: A Simulation-Based Approach.

Workplace accidents are of great concern in the construction industry. Most of those accidents are caused by unsafe behavior in the workplace. Many previous studies have analyzed the causes of workers' unsafe behaviors, but few have investigated workers' feelings of insecurity from the perspective of systematic psychological theory. This study developed an attitude-behavior-intervention feedback loop mechanism of construction workers and used the dual-attitude theory to explain the occurrence mechanisms of unsafe behavior. Using this mechanism, an active-intervention system-dynamics model and a passive-intervention system-dynamics model were designed and simulated. The coefficient of the system dynamics equation in the simulation model involved meta-analysis to combine the correlation coefficients of existing studies, which increased the sample size and improved the statistical test efficiency. The results show that an implicit safety attitude has a more significant impact on safety behavior, and the effect of an active intervention is stronger than that of a passive intervention. Based on these results, this paper presents some feasible suggestions to reduce the probability of unsafe worker behaviors occurring.

The impact of COVID-19 on the workplace wellbeing of police services in Australia

ABSTRACT Workplace wellbeing is a fast-developing subject in employment relations. This qualitative study examined the workplace wellbeing of police during COVID-19. There has been a significant critique of the narrow focus only on individual resilience and stress as the cause of workers’ poor mental health and wellbeing. Research into frontline workers’ mental health and wellbeing has mainly focused on the cumulative effect of trauma and operational stress injuries on individual resilience, with insufficient consideration of the impact of organisational culture, systemic and environmental factors. Drawing on a survey of 665 police professionals from all states and territories in Australia, this research investigated individual, the nature of work, organisational and environmental factors that negatively impacted worker wellbeing during the pandemic. The paper concludes that incorporating the full range of factors related to workplace wellbeing would inform an improved, holistic approach to maintaining and enhancing employee wellness. Understanding the influence of these factors during COVID-19 has implications for employment relations theory and the practical management of frontline emergency service workers’ workplace wellbeing generally and in times of crisis and disruption.

Предикторы рабочего протеста в СССР в конце 1920-х - первой половине 1930-х гг.: воспринимаемая несправедливость и связанные с ней эмоции (на материалах Нижневолжского региона)

The paper aims to reveal the potential of workers’ protest under social crisis in the Lower Volga region at the end of the 1920s - the beginning of the 1930s. For the first time in regional historiography, the author analyzes the causes of workers’ protest in the mentioned period, introduces into scientific circulation previously unpublished archival documents, and herein lies scientific originality of the study. The article examines only one predictor of protest behaviour, namely, the predictor of perceived injustice and related emotions. The analysis results indicate workers’ readiness for protest actions.

The mobility of the triangular hub cities against a cause of workers' transfer(Germany, Poland, Hungary)

This paper studies the impact of domestic and foreign economic activity on mobility among regions. The shortage of human resources and demand continues in Eastern Europeans. Especially Ukrainians, have entered the Polish labor market to make up for the scarce areas. As a result, Poland's supply and demand in Ukraine is disproportionate. Minimum wage increases are putting continued pressure on employers. Therefore, the regression equation in the form of job-seeker's economic activity ratio, y= AX²+B,(x=settlers) can be used to grasp the relationship between curves. According to the domestic and foreign workers who migrated, economic activities was rather than increasing the local population, the settlers of nearby large cities is more proportional. Empirical analysis has shown that the human resource hub has increased migration to large cities and industrial. The hub ‘A‘nation has been created for mobility in 4th wave re-industry, and the same re-industrialization (N₂) in other cities has attracted nearby human resources, but not settle. After all, the hub relationship between N₁ and N₂ is a mobile relationship. Due to wage inequality or a positive wellbeing chasm, workers are not settled plant area but a nearby city, or commuting between borders is easy to go into the hub central city. However, this proved on emerging from the relatively temporary settlers in the AI era.

Strategic Adaptation as a Way of Managing Organizational Changes in the Context of Implementing a Safety Oriented Enterprise Management Approach

Strategic adaptation is one of the effective approaches of enterprise management, which is based on implementing safety-oriented management, taking into account current dangers, threats and risks. First, such adaptation is associated with changes in the enterprise management system, aimed at establishing appropriate communications between the structural divisions of the enterprise, the distribution of authorities and responsibility for making decisions, counteracting the opportunistic behavior of employees due to changes in the organizational structure of the enterprise management. In the process of research, the use of L. Greiner's Model of Organizational Change was proposed (for a generalized picture of the sequence of organizational changes), and the Change Curve Model by J. Duck was adapted (when developing a fundamental sequence of measures to identify the main causes of workers' resistance and choose ways to counter it). This allows optimizing the processes of strategic adaptation within the safety oriented approach of enterprise management.

Antisipasi Pada Keluhan Low Back Pain Dapat Mengurangi Kelelahan dan Meningkatkan Motivasi Kerja

Low back pain has become a central issue of physiological health. Almost all the discussion of musculoskeletal complaints places more emphasis on the need to pay attention to the importance of health in the lower back. One of the causes of workers' complaints on the lower back is a less natural posture when on the move. The impact that is most easily observed as a result of the emergence of low back pain is the emergence of fatigue and decreased work motivation. Observation of the impact of low back pain on workers was examined using the same subject design. The subject are 11 people who work as wood carving artists. In period 1 the subjects worked in conventional working conditions, while in period 2 the subjects were given treatment, namely anticipation of complaints of low back pain, working in ergo-anthropometric working conditions, ie given ergonomic work tables and chairs with additional nutrition intake, active rest and work uniform. The fatigue variable was measured using a 30 items rating scale questionnaire and crafters' motivation was measured by a questionnaire on 4 Likert scales. Data analysis begins with descriptive analysis and normality test data with ShapiroWilk. Data with normal distribution are used t-paired analysis and data with abnormal distribution use Wilcoxon test. In this study it was found that ergo-anthropometric working conditions can reduce fatigue by 27.34% and increase work motivation by 20.39%. It can be concluded that efforts to anticipate complaints of low back pain can reduce fatigue and maintain work motivation of carving craftsmen.

Wage Theft as Crime: An Institutional View

This essay argues that criminalizing “wage theft” fulfills a movement demand. However, because criminal law has historically been used by employers and governments against workers, using it for the cause of workers requires careful deliberation. Moreover, as the prison abolition movement has correctly noted, the United States over-imprisons its own citizens, mostly out of racial animosities and biases, so any use of the criminal justice system to protect workers appears anathema. Nevertheless, this essay argues for wage theft criminalization, but only as long as it is accompanied by the creation of specialized prosecutors and police who handle work law matters exclusively, collaborate with the traditional labor and employment law agencies, and cooperate with workers and their advocates to investigate and prosecute wage theft cases. The need to criminalize wage theft, as well as how to do it, is thus an institutional question.

Tengsl stoðkerfiseinkenna íslenskra ungmenna við vinnu með skóla

Musculoskeletal symptoms are common in adolescence, and may predispose a person to more occurrences in adulthood. Musculoskeletal problems have increased in the adult work force in recent years, becoming one of the most common causes of workers' disability, particularly among women. However, there is a lack of research on the association between musculoskeletal symptoms and teenage work. The aim of this research is to examine the association between four types of musculoskeletal symptoms (aches in joints and/or muscles, aches in the neck or shoulders, backache, and myalgia) and the level of term-time work among Icelandic teenagers, by gender, age, and educational status of the parents. A survey was carried out in the first half of 2018 amongst 2800 teenagers, aged 13-19, randomly selected from the Registers Iceland. The response rate was 48.6%. The young people were asked how often they had experienced musculoskeletal symptoms in the last 12 months, and then were divided into three groups according to their level of term-time work: non-workers; moderate workers (≤ 12 h/w and/or in irregular work); and intensive workers (> 12) h/w and in regular work). A Chi-square test was used to test statistical significance: 95% confidence interval (CI). The results show that intensive term-time workers are more prone to suffer from all four types of musculoskeletal symptoms than non-workers. The association persists for backache independent of demographic factors, and for all measured musculoskeletal symptoms among girls. Conclusion is that the working conditions of Icelandic teenagers need to be improved so that they do not give rise to musculoskeletal symptoms. In particular, the working conditions of young females need to be examined, as well as the conditions that lead to occupational backache.

A Study on Minimization of Injury and Accidental Causes in Different Operational Sections of RMG Industries in Bangladesh

The primary objective of this study is to investigate the industrial accident in readymade garments (RMG) industries and find out the ways how this risk of injuries and accidents can be mitigating by implementing safety rules and suggestions. The paper discusses in brief the risk of injury and accidental causes of workers in various sections like dyeing, cutting, sewing, printing and finishing of RMG industries based upon the industrial environment and working conditions. The sample respondents are selected from the different industries in Tangail district. Purposive sampling technique is followed for data collection, where different level of respondents is interviewed for collecting information from selective garments industry. After analyzing the collected data, the major accidental causes and injuries faced by the workers in those selective units are indicated for which there have been noticed a massive fall down of workers’ efficiency. Indicating those problems, improvement proposals are given to those industries and implemented over a course of month. From the proposed improvement proposal, it is found that, the rate of injury and accidental risks have been decreased far better than before and almost all risks can be properly controlled if the managing as well as responsible parties try to follow the risk controlling technique properly.

Prevalence of anxiety disorders as a cause of workers' absence.

to analyze the prevalence of various anxiety disorders among mental and behavioral disorders as a cause for the leave of absence of workers in the state of Piauí. transversal census-based study performed with data from the National Social Security Institute. Four-hundred twelve leaves of absence of workers due to anxiety disorders in the 2015-2016 biennium were included. higher prevalence was found for mixed anxiety-depressed disorder (31.2%), followed by other anxious disorders (20.6%) and generalized anxiety (14.1%). Ages from 22 to 45 years old prevailed in the group of individuals with duration of absence greater than or equal to 41 days, with statistically significant difference (p < 0.001). There was no statistically significant association (p = 0.004) between rural activity and increased time of absence. the study draws attention to the prevalence of "other anxiety disorders" as the cause of leave of absence, with emphasis on mixed anxiety-depressed disorder.

The availability of wearable-device-based physical data for the measurement of construction workers' psychological status on site: From the perspective of safety management

Abstract Workers' unsafe behaviors have been recognized as one of the main causes to construction accidents, while the existing research shows that workers' psychological status on site has a direct influence on their behaviors. Thus monitoring workers' psychological status may benefit the reduction of unsafe behaviors on site, thus preventing accident from occurring. However, due to the lack of appropriate methods to collect jobsite workers' psychological data, it is difficult for the existing research to reveal the relationship between psychological status and unsafe behavior. This research proposes an efficient wearable technology-based method to collect jobsite workers' psychological data to support such an analysis. Wearable-device-based physical data collection has been regarded as a promising approach to study human's psychological status in the field of psychology, and applied to pedagogy and clinical psychology, but seldom in the construction industry. The purpose of this research is to study the availability of the approach in construction safety management. To do this, an on-site experiment was conducted to collect workers' physical data via using wearable devices, as well as psychological data through the use of PANAS (Positive and Negative Affect Schedule) and DRM (Day Reconstruction Method). Based on the data, the correlations between workers' psychological status and physical data are analyzed. The results show that jobsite workers' physical data is available for the measurement of workers' psychological status. This research will contribute to the research on jobsite workers' psychology in the context of real construction sites, as well as the identification of the mental causes of workers' unsafe behaviors on site, thus improving the performance of construction safety management.

시스템 다이내믹스를 이용한 건설 작업자의 불안전한 행동의 인지 과정 모델링

건설재해의 직접적인 원인은 작업자의 불안전한 행동과 작업장의 불안전한 상태로 분류할 수 있다. 그러나 작업자의 불안전한 행동의 원인은 불안전한 상태에 비해 상대적으로 발견이 어렵다. 왜냐하면 불안전한 행동은 개인의 인지과정을 거쳐 순식간에 발생하기 때문이다. 따라서 작업자 인지과정모델을 통해 불안전한 행동의 원인을 밝히고 그 관리방안을 밝히는 것이 본 연구의 목적이다. 작업자의 인지과정모델을 개발하기 위해 피드백 관계를 규명하기에 알맞은 시스템 다이내믹스 방법론을 사용하였다. 개발된 인지과정모델은 작업자가 위험을 인식하지 못하는 그 상황 자체의 위험성에 대하여 강조하였으며 작업자가 위험을 인식 하였더라도 불안전한 행동을 할 수 있음을 나타냈다. 또한 불안전한 행동이 바로 사고로 이어지지 않는다는 습관은 작업자의 안전에 대한 부정적 태도인 태도로 이어진다는 점에 대해서도 규명하였다. 이러한 분석은 건설현장의 안전관리자가 작업자의 인지상태를 관리하는데 도움이 될 것이다. Finding causes of workers' unsafe behaviors is important to prevent construction accidents because 80 percent of accidents occur by workers' unsafe behaviors. In this regard, this research aims to investigate possible reasons of workers' unsafe behaviors based on workers' cognitive process model using System dynamics. This study is based on two ways of workers' cognitive process which are in relation to hazard perception and failure of hazard perception. Based on existing literature, causal loops for workers' cognitive process are developed to explain workers' habituation by staying out of accidents, safety learning by experience, failure of hazard perception, and attitude change by accidents. The interactions between the developed loops provide managerial insights to reduce workers' unsafe behaviors from a safety manager's perspective including increasing the probability of workers' hazard perception through knowledge management, maintaining workers' positive attitude toward safety, and controlling first-line supervisors to eliminate workers' unsafe behavior. The research allows us to better understand the causes and solutions of workers' unsafe behaviors in workers' cognitive perspectives.

Between Socialism and Feminism: Charlotte Glas (1873–1944)

This article explores how Charlotte Glas, a founding member of the Austrian Social Democratic Party and a leading figure in the public sphere during the late imperial period, attempted to advance the cause of workers’ rights and women’s emancipation. Charged with lèse-majesté following a public rally in 1893, and tried before a Viennese court, Glas was forced to confront both the repressive policies of the Habsburg state and the patriarchal practices of her society and her party. Ultimately, Glas chose to subordinate the fight for women’s suffrage to the broader socialist campaign for universal male suffrage. Her dilemmas as a woman, Jew and socialist were captured in the character of Therese Golowski in Arthur Schnitzler’s Der Weg ins Freie.

India's “Informal Sector”: Demystifying a Problematic Concept

In both academic and activist discourse, particularly with regard to India, the concept of the informal sector has come to prominence, particularly after India's liberalization. This article demystifies the idea of the informal sector in India, revealing the multilayered existence of various groups of workers in vulnerable positions which are by no means inevitable or permanent but rather are the product of India's history and political economy. Accordingly, it is the case that certain interventions have the potential to transform the lives of India's unorganized workers, but such policy would need to target the specific needs of each unorganized group of workers. We argue that the concept and discourse of the informal sectors imply the permanence of unorganized, unregulated work. Conceptualizing Indian labor in this way leads to a position that the state should provide support and welfare measures to help workers survive at a bare minimum level of subsistence, but also to a fundamental failure to address the structural and specific causes of workers’ vulnerabilities.

Development of The Yarn Sorting Equipment (khonhook) by Slide Way

Development of the yarn sorting equipment (khonhook) by slide way due to the principle of engineering that cause of workers on the long of motion time. The data was collected from the weaving group Ban Nongkok village, Nakornratchasima Province, THAILAND. According to the study, the step of yarn sorting (konhook) was one of the steps that affect long of motion time. The problem was the inadequate capacity equipment. The objective of research was to study and develop the yarn sorting equipment (konhook). The fabric used in the study was 64 meters in length and 1 meter in width. Researchers studied the processes the yarn sorting (konhook) which it consists of seven sub steps, 1) the thread tube setting, 2) yarn bunching, 3) tying a knot at the end of yarn, 4) looping the yarn into a pillar, 5) sorting the yarn (konhook), 6) crossing pillars and 7) taking out the yarn. Researchers focused on studying yarn sorting process (konhook) by designing and creating a device for yarn sorting (konhook) for reducing yarn sorting (konhook) time by the original method performance indicators. The results found that the developed yarn sorting equipment (konhook) ) by slide way could reduce working time from 7.24 minutes to 6.08 minutes of the original equipment yarn sorting (konhook). This means it could make the process 16.02 % faster. This also helps reducing the distance of workers` movement from 2,234 meters to 8 meters. This is 99.64 % shorter.

The prevalence and characteristics of low back pain among sitting workers in a Japanese manufacturing company.

Low back pain (LBP) is a major public health problem and the most common cause of workers' disability, resulting in substantial economic burden in terms of workers' compensation and medical costs. Sitting is a recognized potential risk factor for developing LBP. Therefore, eliminating risk factors associated with working conditions and individual work capacity may be beneficial in preventing LBP in sitting workers. The purpose of this prospective cross-sectional study is to investigate the prevalence of LBP and examine risk factors that contribute to the development of LBP in sitting workers at an electronics manufacturing company. A cross-sectional survey was administered to all subjects to assess the prevalence of LBP persisting for at least 48 h during the recent week. Data on demographic characteristics and potential risk factors for LBP were collected at routine annual check-ups. Patients with LBP completed the Roland-Morris Disability Questionnaire (RDQ), which provided information on the attributes of LBP. Univariate and multivariate regression analyses examined the association between LBP and potential risk factors. Of the 1,329 sitting workers, 201 (15.1 %) acknowledged experiencing LBP during the recent week. In female workers, weight and body mass index were significantly correlated with the RDQ score. Univariate analyses identified male sex, prior history of LBP, height ≥170 cm, and weight ≥70 kg as significant risk factors of LBP. Multivariate logistic regression analyses identified prior history of LBP and past history of lumbar spine surgery as significant risk factors of LBP. This study characterized the prevalence and attributes of LBP in Japanese sitting workers and provided information about potential risk factors contributing to occurrence of LBP in the workplace.

Boycott Hyatt and Patronize Union Hotels

Boycott Hyatt and Patronize Union Hotels

Modelling human boredom at work: mathematical formulations and a probabilistic framework

PurposeBoredom is believed to be the common cause of workers' absenteeism, accidents, job dissatisfaction, and performance variations in manufacturing environments with repetitive jobs. Effectively measuring and possibly predicting job boredom is the key to the design and implementation of appropriate strategies to deal with such undesirable emotional state. The purpose of this paper is to present new methodologies to measure and predict human boredom at work.Design/methodology/approachTwo series of mathematical formulations, linear and nonlinear, to describe the variation of human boredom at work are first presented. Given the complexity of human emotions, the authors also present a probabilistic framework based on state‐of‐the‐art Bayesian networks to model employees' boredom at work.FindingsThe proposed methods centre on the prediction and measurement of human boredom at work. They enable managers to take proactive actions to deal with human boredom at work. Examples of such actions are task rotation and job redesign.Research limitations/implicationsThe proposed methods are verified using a number of cases describing a set of phenomena that may occur in the real world. However, further research is required to demonstrate the validity of the models using real world data.Originality/valueAccording to accessible literature, human boredom is being measured by self reporting scales thus far. This study describes and demonstrates analytical approaches to model human boredom at work.