Employee-workplace alignment

Roskams, Michael; Haynes, Barry

doi:10.1108/f-09-2018-0105

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“…Past studies have frequently associate thermal environment and CWP (Arif et al, 2016;Roskams & Haynes, 2019). Countries with extremely hot weather have significant implications to construction CWP.…”

Section: Construction Workers Productivitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Examining Thermal Comfort Levels and Physical Performance in Malaysian Settings: A Simulation Chamber Experiment

Mohammad Nizam,

Rasdan Ismail

2023

JBLM

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Thermal comfort refers to a situation where human feels satisfied with the environment's temperature. There is no absolute thermal comfort level that applies to all human, since it is a subjective situation that differ from one person to another. This study's objective is to identify Malaysian thermal comfort level and physical performances under simulation chamber experiment settings. Three young and healthy males with no medical issues were chosen as study respondents. There were four settings in this study; (i) 25°C with 70 RH, (ii) 34°C with 92% RH, (iii) 34°C with 74% RH and (v) 38°C with 83% RH . Respondents were required to imitate construction workers lifting task under the four environment settings. This study findings show a noticeable association between an increase in temperature towards heart rate level. As the temperature rises up, respondents mean and peak HR level also rises. Significant mean and peak HR were identified at 38°C for all respondents. In addition, respondents become fatigue and sluggish much faster at 38°C compared to 25°C and 34°C. The most notable decline in physical abilities was identified for Respondent A under 38°C setting. One possible reason for this situation is that respondent A Body Mass Index (BMI) is much higher than the two other respondents.

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Section: Construction Workers Productivitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Examining Thermal Comfort Levels and Physical Performance in Malaysian Settings: A Simulation Chamber Experiment

Mohammad Nizam,

Rasdan Ismail

2023

JBLM

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“…Physical environment that cause physiological and/or psychological strain can be viewed as demands whereas if it stimulates engagement and motivation, and/or aid recovery from demands it is viewed as resource (Roskams & Haynes, 2019). The quality of workplace environment is determined by its characteristics like color, artifacts, decor, comfortable light, acoustics and the forms and aesthetics.…”

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Dwindling Resources in Developing countries: Core Self Evaluations to the Rescue of Transfer of Training

Haq

Rizvi

Shah

et al. 2020

NRJSS

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In its pursuit of resources the developed world needs to invest in not only infrastructure development in developing countries but also in management trainings. This study aims to empirically investigate the links of three dimensions of organizational resource availability with transfer of leadership training through trainee motivation to transfer. It further investigates the positive moderated mediation effects of employee core self-evaluation on these relations in developing world context. The study used a cross sectional quantitative design to study the transfer of training. Survey method was adopted to collect data in three-time waves for the study and Hayes' PROCESS tool and AMOS plug-ins were used for testing the hypothesized relationships. Moreover, data were collected using self-reported questionnaires, most of which have been widely validated, from participants belonging to power sector organization in Pakistan. The findings of the study affirmed all the hypotheses in conceptualized directions.Using transfer of skills as context and individual as a unit of real progress and growth, the study philosophizes a much broader perspective of human social development beyond leadership development in developing countries. With the help of Goal Setting theory, the paper builds a case for HRD professionals in developing world to focus their trainings in developing core self-evaluations in employees and leaders alike. The study proposes the poor nations to be confidant on their self-resources and the rich of the world to have higher goals of helping the poor nations in achieving their own goals.

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