Short description:

This handbook highlights the symbiotic relationship between human-centric approaches and organizational success in 21st century business and corporate culture. It explores how integrating human factors and ergonomics strategically can fuel innovation, enhance performance, and deliver a competitive advantage. 

Long description:

Handbook of Human Factors and Ergonomics in Contemporary Business highlights the symbiotic relationship between human-centric approaches and organizational success in 21st century business and corporate culture. It delivers a comprehensive exploration of how integrating human factors and ergonomics strategically can fuel innovation, enhance performance, and deliver a competitive advantage.

By promoting employee wellbeing to implementing ergonomic interventions for heightened productivity, the chapters offer invaluable insights into the role of human factors across differing business sectors. Edited and authored by distinguished experts in the field, this handbook presents theoretical frameworks, empirical evidence, and real-world case studies. Across these chapters split into various sections on perspectives, digitalization and wellbeing, it provides interdisciplinary perspectives and practical applications to equip readers with the tools needed to encourage thriving workplace environments, nurture employee welfare, and foster innovation and creativity. International case studies from diverse businesses and topics on Industry 5.0, logistics, strategy, UX, productivity, green issues and much more result in a thorough overview of the topic. It will help any reader optimize organizational performance and understand the key connections between human factors and business success.

This title is an essential read for researchers and professionals in ergonomics and human factors, business and management, leadership, engineering design and human resources.

Table of Contents:

0. Front Matter. Section I: Human Factors and Ergonomics- Perspectives 1. Human Factors and Ergonomics in Contemporary Business: Perspectives on Strategic Orientation, Corporate Success, and Innovation. 2. Deconstructing Human Influences in Merger & Acquisition Through MBA Framework: A Systematic Literature Review and Thematic Analysis. 3. Assessing the strategic orientation towards ergonomic hazards in health and safety reporting systems in selected oil and gas drilling sites.. 4. Effect of Personality Traits as Human factors on Academic Stress of Students: An Exploratory Study using PLS-SEM. 5. Synergizing Green HRM and Human Factors: A Paradigmatic Approach in Contemporary Business. 6. Potential Strategies for Corporate Success in dealing with WMSDs at Workplace: A Study of Ergonomic Practices in Hospitals in India. 7. The Integration of Strategic Orientation with Human Factors and Ergonomics Interventions in Workplace. 8. Exploring the Role of Employee Participation in Ergonomic Transformations: A Study in Change Management. 9. Unraveling the Connection, between Employee Happiness and Organizational Success Across Different Cultures. 10. Impact of Psychological Well Being, Workplace well-being and subjective well-being on Job Orientation: Evidence from ten Maharatna Companies of India.. Section II: HF&E Meets Technology: Shaping Corporate Success in the Digital Landscape. 11. Human Factors and Ergonomics in the Digital Era: Role of Artificial Intelligence. 12. The Role of Human Factors in Mitigating Risks in AI-Based Performance Evaluation Systems. 13. Human-Centric Logistics: Ergonomic Considerations in Warehouse Order Picking for Industry 5.0 Integration. 14. Strategic Orientation for Corporate Success: Innovating Human Factors and Ergonomics in Robotics for Industry 4.0. 15. Implication of the Dark side of Artificial Intelligence on Corporate Success from the perspective of Human Factors and Ergonomics. Section III: HF&E in Action: Strategies for Employee Well-being and Corporate Success. 16. Application of Tailored Ergonomic Intervention Strategy for Reducing Work-Related Stress. 17. Optimizing Employee Wellbeing and Performance: The Role of Human Factors and Ergonomics for Corporate Success. 18. Enhancing Employee Well-being and Operational Efficiency in the Oil Sector: A Holistic Examination of Ergonomics, Corporate Practices, and Human Factors Integration. 19. Enhancing Organizational Success: Exploring Ergonomics, Employee Deviant Workplace Behavior (DWB) and Occupational Burnout (OU). 20. Workplace Stress Reduction and Mental Health Promotion via Human Factors & Ergonomics (HF&E). 21. Human-Centric Nutrition and the Microbiome for the development of business strategies in transforming Health: Special Focus to Arab World. 22. Exploring the Association between Ergonomics and Financial Peace: Investigating Financial Well-Being and Well-being Expenses in Banking Professionals.