Quand l’organisation empêche un travail de qualité : étude de cas

Health problems at work often originate in the operators’ activities. Work intensification, increasing pressures, greater physical, cognitive, and psychic workloads, and contradictory demands oblige employees to make choices which are not always satisfactory and which could be at the origin of their...

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Main Authors: Johann Petit, Bernard Dugué
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Institut de Recherche Robert-Sauvé en Santé et en Sécurité du Travail (IRSST) 2012-08-01
Series:Perspectives Interdisciplinaires sur le Travail et la Santé
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/pistes/3419
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description Health problems at work often originate in the operators’ activities. Work intensification, increasing pressures, greater physical, cognitive, and psychic workloads, and contradictory demands oblige employees to make choices which are not always satisfactory and which could be at the origin of their PSRs and MSDs. Good quality work, which makes them unique and identifies them as skillful professionals from their colleagues’, customers’, and management’s viewpoint, is at stake. When an organization prevents operators from doing a “good job,” the risks for their physical and psychic health increase. Based on an intervention in the banking sector, we try to show how reorganization can push operators to cut back on a “qualitatively significant” part of their activity and can have negative consequences on their work and health. In such a case, the most likely ergonomic options would be to try to change the organization.
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Quand l’organisation empêche un travail de qualité : étude de cas
Perspectives Interdisciplinaires sur le Travail et la Santé
intervention
health
service sector
work quality
hindered activity
title Quand l’organisation empêche un travail de qualité : étude de cas
title_full Quand l’organisation empêche un travail de qualité : étude de cas
title_fullStr Quand l’organisation empêche un travail de qualité : étude de cas
title_full_unstemmed Quand l’organisation empêche un travail de qualité : étude de cas
title_short Quand l’organisation empêche un travail de qualité : étude de cas
title_sort quand l organisation empeche un travail de qualite etude de cas
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health
service sector
work quality
hindered activity
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