دانلود رایگان مقاله انگلیسی یک روش مدیریت دانش برای اجرای ارگونومی در سازمان ها - الزویر 2018

Abstract

The current economic and social environment suffered major changes in the last years, mainly driven by technological and cultural innovations and trends. One of the most interesting changes is the development of knowledge management (KM) and its increasing diffusions in all economic sectors. There is no activity that can be performed without some type of knowledge transfer, irrespective of whether it is tacit or explicit. At the same time, every organization must implement health and safety objectives in order to achieve business effectiveness and efficiency. Through ergonomics working conditions and occupational health and safety (OHS) objectives can be achieved more efficient. Considering that ergonomics is an interdisciplinary science, KM appears as extremely necessary for superior knowledge transfer among expert groups in the organization. The paper aims to demonstrate the usefulness of KM science in the ergonomics approach by highlighting key focus areas to support efficient implementation within organizations. By analyzing the consulting services offer by six Unites States consulting companies in the filed of ergonomics, we shall underlined the trends and challenges of the KM implications in ergonomics approaches.

4. Conclusions

Ergonomics is essential for the success any organization due to its interdisciplinary character. It involves knowledge and experience of experts from various domains and it ensures workplace safety, health and well-being. In nowadays changing and permanently developing cultural and technical context, implementing ergonomics in organizations would be almost impossible and certainly inefficient if it were made without the help of KM. The main reason that stands behind this statement is that a KM system has a set of requirements that offer the best conditions for implementing ergonomics solutions, including the following:

x Knowledge is a very subjective notion and its use and storage should not be reduced to documents, computer files and organizational information. Knowledge extends from workers experience to technical innovations and economic changes;

x Organizations should pay special attention to the communication method used, as knowledge becomes useless if workers are not encouraged to learn it and use it in their daily activity;

x The social context of knowledge transfer is very often informal. This is highly important when considering the time and context of knowledge transfer;

x Organizations should pay special attention to the management style and the organizational culture. Employees should feel important, respected and motivated to learn and achieve higher levels of self-development in order to be open for major changes such as ergonomics interventions.