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Defining elements of sustainable work systems – a system-oriented approach

Issue title: IEA 2012: 18th World congress on Ergonomics - Designing a sustainable future

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Fischer, Klaus | Zink, Klaus J.

Affiliations: Research Institute for Technology and Work, University of Kaiserslautern, Kurt-Schumacher-Str. 74a, 67663 Kaiserslautern, Germany

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Keywords: Sustainable development, sustainable work system, system theory, keyword four, keyword five

DOI: 10.3233/WOR-2012-0059-3900

Journal: Work, vol. 41, no. Supplement 1, pp. 3900-3905, 2012

Published: 2012
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Abstract

Based on a system-theoretic discussion of sustainability, this paper aims to develop a conceptual model of a sustainable work system which is consistent with the definition of ergonomics by the IEA in 2000 (but also with earlier definitions) as well as with the triple bottom line understanding of sustainable development – comprising the management of human, social, ecological and economic capital in a balanced manner.

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