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Job control is a person's ability to influence what happens in their work environment, in particular to influence matters that are relevant to their personal goals. Job control may include control over work tasks, control over the work pace and physical movement, control over the social and technical environment, and freedom from supervision.
Directed attention fatigue (DAF) is a neuro-psychological phenomenon that results from overuse of the brain's inhibitory attention mechanisms, which handle incoming distractions while maintaining focus on a specific task. The greatest threat to a given focus of attention is competition from other stimuli that can cause a shift in focus.
This model was expanded into the demand-control-support model that suggests that the combination of high control and high social support at work buffers the effects of high demands. [ 60 ] As a work demand, workload is also relevant to the job demands-resources model of stress that suggests that jobs are stressful when demands (e.g., workload ...
According to the United States Department of Labor, “In 2009, employed persons worked an average of 7.5 hours on the days they worked, which were mostly weekdays.[In addition to that], 84 percent of employed persons did some or all of their work at their workplace.” [7] This indicates that majority of the population spend their waking hours at work, outside their homes.
Workplace wellness, also known as corporate wellbeing outside the United States, is a broad term used to describe activities, programs, and/or organizational policies designed to support healthy behavior in the workplace.
Researchers, whose work was published in Sleep in October, looked into the effects of a "typical dose" and a "high dose" of caffeine consumed at different times of the day ("morning, afternoon ...
This hedge fund head honcho claims he's spent 2,000 nights in his office so he could ‘concentrate nonstop on work.’ 3 ways to make your money work hard instead Bethan Moorcraft November 29 ...
The results indicated that pilots believed performance was impaired when home stress carried over to the work environment. The degree of home stress that carried over to work environment was significantly and negatively related to flying performance items, such as planning, control, and accuracy of landings.