Investigating the Effect of Ergonomics on Employee Productivity: A Case Study of the Butchering and Trimming Line of Pioneer Food Cannery in Ghana

Pickson, Robert Becker; Bannerman, Stephen; Ahwireng, Patience Obeng

doi:10.4236/me.2017.812103

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“…This might in turn affect the performance levels of the employees and act as a loss for the organisation as a whole. Following from the previously documented literature, this research takes up the identified ergonomic elements to study their impact on the performance levels of employees [15].…”

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Impact of Office Ergonomic Elements on Employee Performance: A Case Study of Larsen and Toubro, Surat

Bajaj¹,

Coelho²,

Kunte³

2022

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Ergonomics is said to have a great potential when it comes to designing of any artefact. Office ergonomics, a branch of ergonomics, seeks to understand how physical characteristics of humans are relevant in designing the workplace and is often used by organisations as an input to minimize the amount of discomfort faced by the employees. The provision of this input by the organisation generates a need to understand if it has any impact on the output produced by the employees. This paper seeks to understand this relationship and study the impact of office ergonomics on the performance of the employees. Additionally, it tries to discover the presence of participatory ergonomics (PE) in the organisation. 75 employees were randomly drawn from different departments of Larsen and Toubro, Surat, India and a questionnaire was administered to assess the relationship between 9 ergonomic elements (independent variables) and employee performance (dependent variable) by building a multiple regression model in R. The regression was first carried out for the 75 employees, post which the type of department that employees belong to (manufacturing or non-manufacturing) was added in the multiple regression model to test if department type moderates the relationship between the independent variables and the dependent variable. The study also tried to understand the implementation of PE in the organisation. Overall, for all employees, architectonic details and colour of the walls showed significant impact on performance. When departmental setup was introduced in the model as a moderating variable, it did not change the results of the model. Thus, departmental setup was found to be irrelevant in moderating the relationship between the variables.

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Section: Conceptual Frameworkmentioning

confidence: 99%

Impact of Office Ergonomic Elements on Employee Performance: A Case Study of Larsen and Toubro, Surat

Bajaj¹,

Coelho²,

Kunte³

2022

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“…further, Harris (1994) has been indicated that his definition of individual work productivity includes effectiveness(producing the right products or services), efficiency(prudent utilization of resources), and quality(meeting technical and customer specifications). Pickson et al (2017) used job satisfaction for investigating the effect of ergonomics on employee productivity. So, when measuring work productivity of computer operators' researcher has been taken some assorted dimensions through the above literature regarding computer operators' work productivity.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…From this, it may be concluded that the impact of indoor room temperature is more on the office worker's performance than the effect of illumination. (Pickson et al, 2017) Investigating Ergonomic approach in the manufacturing production system can reduce defects and improve quality in the production process.…”

Section: Organizational Ergonomic Factorsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Ergonomic Factors and Their Impact on Computer Operators’ Work Productivity

Jayathilaka¹,

Karunarathne²

2021

IJRP

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Ergonomics plays a pivotal role in modern information technology oriented organizations and most of the organizations are trend to acquire latest information technology infrastructure for organizational business processes, when introducing new technology fit between technology and human factor essentially need to be considered. Ergonomics related theories and guidelines provides the knowledge for effective organizational design, however due to the changes of organizational context, nature of work and demographics of workers outcomes of applying or ignoring Ergonomics principles need to be study in specific context. The purpose of this study was to investigate the ergonomic factors and their impact on computer operators' work productivity. Studies done on technology based productivity enhancement are considerably record high amount at the time of this study , however still there exist a research gap for ergonomics factors and productivity enhancement in specific organizational contexts. To fill this gap, the research was conducted in private bank located in a rural area of Sri Lanka, with a sample of 100 computer operators in Anuradhapura city. Stratified random sample technique was used to choose the research sample. Data was collected from a standard questionnaire specifically prepared based on literature based conceptual model. The Correlation statistics of the study revealed that ergonomic factors have a positive and strong relationship on computer operators' work productivity. Also, the results of the study found that the environmental ergonomic factors, cognitive ergonomic factors, and organizational ergonomic factors have a significant positive impact on computer operators' work productivity and physical ergonomics haven't any significant impact on computer operators' work productivity.

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“…Implementation of the study of ergonomic solutions can provide employees a better and comfortable working environment and also increase productivity. The temperature and noise are the most important vital factors that affect the performance of workers in casting industries [4,5]. Generally speaking ergonomics have many advantages in industries such as improves productivity and quality, employee engagement, increase saving.…”

Section: Ergonomicmentioning

confidence: 99%

Improvement of Productivity in Kuwait Steel Using Ergonomics Parameters by Controlling the Noise and Temperature

Bagherian¹

2020

METAL 2020 Conference Proeedings

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Metal casting is one of the most important manufacturing process technologies and is defined as a process in which molten or liquid metal is poured into a mould. Today, metal casting components are found in over 90 percent of manufactured goods and equipment, from critical component for aircraft and automotive industries to home applications as well as construction machineries. In a high competitive market, the productivity improvement is very important. The main aim of this work is to study the productivity improvement in Kuwait Steel Company using ergonomics factors such as noise and temperature. It is concluded that by considering the ergonomics the quality of products has improved and the productivity increased. It was found that, the productivity improved by 0.45 % for controlling the temperature and 0.80 % by controlling the noises.

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Investigating the Effect of Ergonomics on Employee Productivity: A Case Study of the Butchering and Trimming Line of Pioneer Food Cannery in Ghana

Cited by 11 publications

References 19 publications

Impact of Office Ergonomic Elements on Employee Performance: A Case Study of Larsen and Toubro, Surat

Impact of Office Ergonomic Elements on Employee Performance: A Case Study of Larsen and Toubro, Surat

Ergonomic Factors and Their Impact on Computer Operators’ Work Productivity

Improvement of Productivity in Kuwait Steel Using Ergonomics Parameters by Controlling the Noise and Temperature

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