ECTS credits ECTS credits: 6
ECTS Hours Rules/Memories Student's work ECTS: 100 Hours of tutorials: 6 Expository Class: 20 Interactive Classroom: 24 Total: 150
Use languages Spanish, Galician
Type: Ordinary subject Master’s Degree RD 1393/2007 - 822/2021
Departments: Political Science and Sociology
Areas: Psicoloxía Organizacional e Xurídico-Forense
Center Faculty of Labour Relations
Call: Second Semester
Teaching: With teaching
Enrolment: Enrollable | 1st year (Yes)
This course is a general introduction to the techniques and procedures commonly used in the ergonomic analysis of job positions. Students will learn to identify and evaluate key aspects of a job position and the environmental conditions under which we work addressing the psychological characteristics and capabilities of people. Attention to the impact of new technologies in the workplace will be provided.
- THEORETICAL PROGRAM (lectures/ expositive classes)
1. Analysis and classification of occupations
1.1. Man at work. Job function. Basic elements of the job. Ergonomics and work psychology: the laboratory of human resources in the company. Objectives of job analysis
1.2. Analysis methods. Observation. Time and movement technique. Video and biometrics. Classic questionnaires: LEST method and PAQ.
1.3. O * NET classification. History of the database. Model.
2. Work and Technology
2.1. Functions of industrial objects.
2.2. Technology and productivity
2.3. Evolution of technology-employment relationships. Industrial Revolution: Job chain and "deskilling". Employment impact of electrification. Economic development and business administration: The typewriter and other office tools. The digital revolution. Automation and databases.
2.4. Technology in the working world of the XXI century. Working in the "cloud" and labor flexibility. Automating. Big data. Internet of things. Advanced sensors. Virtual-reality applications in the field of job training.
2.5. Political economy of technological change: implications for employment / unemployment
3. Ergonomics Workspace
3.1. Sensory factors. Sound. Lighting. Temperature and vibration
3.2. Space distribution: Evolution of the modern office. The virtual desktop.
3.3. National Survey of working conditions (INSHT)
4. Psychological skills at work
4.1. Actions and operations. Stimulus-response compatibility. Industrial design applications. Fitts Law: implications for the design of user interfaces
4.2. Attention and perception. 3D vision and stereopsis. Using sensory masks at work. Virtual reality in human resources.
4.3. Cognitive processes. Decision processes and TDS
4.4. Creativity. Perceptual organization and creativity. .Educación And creativity
4.4. Social Intelligence: Empathy and sympathy at work.
4.5. Employment / unemployment in the twenty-first century skills.
5. Evaluation of mental workload
5.1. Behavioral measures. Dual-task procedure. Visual search: TR-size set function. Questionnaires and scales. Method of hierarchical structures (Saaty method) applied to human resources at work
5.2. "Eyetracking" in the workplace. Pupillometry. Decision making and eye movements: studies on preferences.
5.3. Human error at work: National Survey. Neuroscience and experimental psychology of attention at work. Monitoring and decrease fatigue. Distraction at work. Selective attention and anxiety: Yerkes-Dobson hypothesis. Lapses of attention at work.
- PRACTICAL PROGRAM (interactive classes)
• Practice 1 Methods and tools for an ergonomic analysis of job position: Manual Labor (blue collar) vs. intellectual work (white collar).
• Practice 2 Workload assessment: Direct vs. indirect measures
• Practice 3 Operation and usefulness of the standard occupational classifications
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BASIC BIBLIOGRAPHY
Fernández-Ríos, M. (1995). Análisis y descripción de puestos de trabajo: Teoría, métodos y ejercicios. Madrid: Ed. Díaz de Santos.
Gómez-Mejía, L., Balkin, D., y Cardy, R. (2005). Gestión de los recursos humanos. Madrid: Pearson-Prentice Hall.
Kroemer, K.H.E. & Granjean, E. (1997). Fitting the task to the human, fifth edition: A textbook of Occupational Ergonomics. London: Taylor & Francis.
Luthans, F. (2008). Comportamiento organizacional. México: McGraw-Hill.
Norman, D. (1988). La psicología de los objetos cotidianos. Madrid: Nerea. [http://itinerantes.com.ar/bibliografia/psicologia.objetos.norman.pdf]
Salvendy, G. (2012). Handbook of Human Factors and Ergonomics (4th ed). New Jersey: Wiley & sons.
COMPLEMENTARY BIBLIOGRAPHY
- McCormick, E.J.; Jeanneret, P.R. y Mecham, R.C. (1972). "A study of job characteristics and job dimensions based on the Position Analysis Questionnaire (PAQ)" Journal of Applied Psychology. Vol. 56. Pág. 347-368.
-Clasificación de ocupaciones:
http://www.fcsm.gov/09papers/Emmel_IV-B.pdf
-Cuestionario para evaluación del ruido del INSHT: http://www.insht.es/InshtWeb/Contenidos/Documentacion/Aplicaciones/fich….
-Estrés térmico.
http://aeipro.com/files/congresos/2013logronio/CIDIP2013_1218_1229.4043….
-Trabajo de estudiante (impacto de las nuevas tecnologías)
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-learning-secret-don-t-take-…
-Encuesta nacional de condiciones de trabajo (2011) del INSHT: http://www.insht.es/portal/site/Insht/menuitem.1f1a3bc79ab34c578c2e8884….
-Impacto de la informatización en el trabajo (predicción)
Frey, C. B. Y Osborne, M. A. (2011). The future of employment: How susceptible are jobs to computerisation?. http://www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/downloads/academic/The_Future_of_Emplo….
-Carga mental:
Díaz Cabrera, D., Hernández Fernaud, E. y Rolo González, G. (2012). Carga mental de trabajo0. Guías de intervención. Madrid. Síntesis.
Gonzalez Gutiérrez, Jose Luis (2005). Carga mental y fatiga laboral. Madrid: Pirámide.
-Carga mental de trabajo agroforestal: http://issga.xunta.es/export/sites/default/recursos/descargas/documenta…
http://issga.xunta.es/portal/contido/documentacion/publicacions/area-te…
-Base de datos 0*Net:
http://www.onetonline.org/link/details/19-3039.01
- To understand the features and limitations of different techniques of job position analysis.
- To know its psychological foundations.
- To understand the practical applications of experimental research in this field.
- To promote health and quality of life through the study of basic psychological functions in the context of the psychology of work.
- To know how to select and properly manage measuring techniques and tools.
- Tou nderstand the vocabulary of the scientific community that addresses these issues.
- Knowing how to find and select relevant information.
- Critical Spirit.
- Ability to work in team
- To integrate knowledge of psychology and related sciences, grouped today into what is generally known as "Human Performance".
There will be two types of classes:
- Expositive classes will be oriented towards training students regarding the acquisition of skills and knowledge of both theoretical and practical contents of the subject. They take place in the classroom 9 (Module F) of the Faculty of Psychology
- Interactive classes will allow students directly apply the knowledge acquired in the lectures, besides providing constant feedback on their progress throughout the course with regard to their degree of acquisition of skills, knowledge, and also attitudes as. They will be carried out at the Laboratory of Basic Psychology II (module A) of the Faculty of Psychology.
In both cases, we will try to maintain a type of teaching:
- Active
- Practical
- Multimedia
- Participative
Assessment of the specific competencies of the subject (acquisition of knowledge and skills) will be done through a final exam and/or partial exams.
Assessment of skills, both specific and those related to titling, will depend on the performance of students in each classroom activities (team job, oral presentations,...) and their individual work too.
The marks obtained by students in the final exam (and/or partial exams) worth up to 50% of the final grade. The remaining percentage corresponds to the score on the continuous assessment and the work done in the interactive classes.
The subject consists of 6 credits, corresponding to an estimated 150 hours of student work overall, estimated distributed as follows:
Expositive sessions = 16 hours
Interactive classes = 28 hours
Tutorship = 2 hours
Evaluation = 2 hours
Reading and preparation of the support material = 48 hours
Preparation of oral presentations, debates and similar = 22 hours
Practical exercises = 32
Total “in person” hours 48
Total student work hours 102
La bibliografía y material de estudio será, en cualquier caso, de libre acceso por internet.
Manuel Jose Blanco Rial
Coordinador/a- Department
- Political Science and Sociology
- Area
- Psicoloxía Organizacional e Xurídico-Forense
- Phone
- 881813708
- m.blanco [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: University Professor
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