Work - Volume 41, issue Supplement 1

Authors: HochiI, Yasuyuki | MizunoO, Motoki | Nakayama, Takahiro | Kanneko, Ikuyo | Kitamura, Kaoru

Article Type: Research Article

Abstract: The purpose of this study was to clarify the relationship between collective efficacy and contextual performance among university athletes in Japan. We carried out 305 university athletes (201 males, 104 females) from 14 teams in various geographic areas in Japan. The average age of the participants was 19.91 years (SD = 1.01). The kinds of sports were soccer, basketball, baseball, volleyball, and so on. Then, using Collective Efficacy Questionnaire for Sports (CEQS; Sandra E. Short et al., 2005) and Contextual Performance Scale (Ikeda, and Furukawa, 2008), we examined the relationship between collective efficacy and Contextual performance. In conclusion, this study …provided the following three remarks. 1) There are relationship between collective efficacy and contextual performance. 2) Contextual performance execution level improve collective efficacy. 3) It is important to always recommend contextual performance in own team to strengthen the collective efficacy more. Show more

Keywords: Team, University students, Collaboration, Sport

DOI: 10.3233/WOR-2012-0942-5759

Citation: Work, vol. 41, no. Supplement 1, pp. 5759-5761, 2012

Authors: Hochi, Yasuyuki | Mizuno, Motoki | Nakayama, Takahiro | Kitamura, Kaoru

Article Type: Research Article

Abstract: The purpose of this study was to examine the effect in the experience of TB among university baseball team from the view point of team-vitalization. We carry out one university baseball team (102 males, 6 female). The average age of the participants was 19.99 years (SD = 1.41). Then, using Check List of Team- Vitalization that was developed by consulting firm in Japan, we examined the degrees of team-vitalization. The answers of this investigation were collected from the participants at fifth times (before intervention of TB, immediately after TB, after three months of TB, before intervention of follow-up training of …TB, and immediately after follow-up training of TB). This study for eight months provided the following three conclusions; 1) University baseball team was vitalized through the experience of TB. 2) Team-vitalization was higher than before TB experience, but this effect of the TB did not seem to be permanent. 3) To keep intervention of TB was very important. Show more

Keywords: Organizational Development, Intervention, Team Effectiveness, Collaboration

DOI: 10.3233/WOR-2012-0943-5762

Citation: Work, vol. 41, no. Supplement 1, pp. 5762-5763, 2012

Authors: Yamada, Kai | Kawata, Yujiro | Nakajima, Nobuyuki | Hirosawa, Masataka

Article Type: Research Article

Abstract: The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between state anxiety and individual athletic game performance. The subjects were 54 male players of 4 teams (The average age was 20.5 (SD=1.09) years), who participated in the Kanto university men’s volleyball league games in the spring of year 2010. The subjects were asked to respond to a Japanese version of the State Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI), which was measured at 4 time periods (the day before, the day of game, just before the game, just after the game) for each of a total of 40 games (each team played …10 games). The results were as follows: (1) Relationships between state anxiety and success rate in game performance (spike, reception, block) showed different correlation depending on each game performance. (2) The group of players who performed well in games collected by coaches scored lower than the more badly-performing group in the score of state anxiety on the day of game and just after the game. (3) The temporal change of the score of state anxiety from just before the game to just after the game was different depending on whether they performed well or not in games. Show more

Keywords: State anxiety, Success rate, Coach’s evaluation, Individual performance, Volleyball

DOI: 10.3233/WOR-2012-0944-5764

Citation: Work, vol. 41, no. Supplement 1, pp. 5764-5766, 2012

Authors: Mizuno, Motoki | Hochi, Yasuyuki | Inoue, Mami | Kaneko, Ikuyo | Yamada, Yasuyuki

Article Type: Research Article

Abstract: Recently, along with the enhancement of the argument for career of athletes, many researchers who major in sports psychology focus mainly on athletic retirement, a coordination of transitions in sport or and outside sport, social support and professional assistance in career transition, in the context of the second career concerning to professional athletes in Japan. However, when it comes to career transition of professional athletes, it is necessary to consider “career” from the whole perspectives of human life. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to clarify the career transition of professional athletes by the way of questionnaire and interview …survey, which is approached from the view point of industrial/organizational psychology. For this purpose, we implemented the interview survey to professional athletes in 2008. In addition, we carried out the investigation to professional football players (interview survey: 5 players, questionnaire survey: 102 players) in 2009. Consequently, three following findings were led in conclusion. (1)Career intervention to professional athletes should be performed before the turning point of the career (career transition). (2)It is important to assess the career intervention to professional athletes. (3)It is an important stance to watch the processes when professional athletes open up one’s career by oneself. Show more

Keywords: professional athletes, career support, second career, career intervention, career development

DOI: 10.3233/WOR-2012-0945-5767

Citation: Work, vol. 41, no. Supplement 1, pp. 5767-5768, 2012

Authors: Fernandes, Marcelo Vicente Forestieri

Article Type: Research Article

Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to propose foundations for a theory of using the Balanced Scorecard (BSC) methodology to improve the strategic view of ergonomics inside the organizations. This approach may help to promote a better understanding of investing on an ergonomic program to obtain good results in quality and production, as well as health maintenance. It is explained the basics of balanced scorecard, and how ergonomists could use this to work with strategic enterprises demand. Implications of this viewpoint for the development of a new methodology for ergonomics strategy views are offered.

Keywords: Ergonomics, Balanced Scorecard, Methodology, Strategy

DOI: 10.3233/WOR-2012-0946-5769

Citation: Work, vol. 41, no. Supplement 1, pp. 5769-5771, 2012

Authors: Francisco, Lopez-Millan | De la Vega, Enrique | Karla, Lucero Duarte | Martha, Diaz Muro

Article Type: Research Article

Abstract: This paper collects the experience for both, academic and professional practice, and deal with the stages and level of involvement from different elements in the organization. The work is focused in some kind of concentric cycles, the very outside circle is formed by those that interact with ergonomic process in a year period, and the inner cycles are those that acts in a daily or weekly intervention. The success of the program still depending on the good will of the managers, but any action directed on benefit of the people at work, enable the moral as well as indicators for …health and safety. Show more

Keywords: Ergonomic program, kaizen ergo day, ergonomics assessment, standardization

DOI: 10.3233/WOR-2012-0947-5772

Citation: Work, vol. 41, no. Supplement 1, pp. 5772-5774, 2012

Authors: Maciel, Regina Heloisa | Lopes, Taise Araújo | Gonçalves, Rosemary Cavalcante

Article Type: Research Article

Abstract: The restructuring of production resulting from the Port Modernization Law (Law 8.630/90) caused significant changes in work organization of Brazilian Ports. In the case of Mucuripe (Fortaleza, Ceará), in particular, the changes were very intense as Mucuripe is an old port that, before the Law, had labor regulation being governed by Trade Unions. This paper aims to present the perceptions of Union Representatives on the changes brought about by the Law on work organization in the port of Fortaleza, its influence in the organization and in the way the Unions deal with this new reality. Open and exploratory interviews were …conducted with representatives of occasional labor workers registered in the Port of Fortaleza OGMO (Orgão Gestor de Mão de Obra, Labor Regulation Management). The analysis of the collected material in the interviews was based on the technique of content analysis proposed by Bardin (1979). Trade Unions have undergone a great loss of power and it has reflected in a relative inability to perform its function and to fight for the rights of the workers. The obvious Trade Unions weakness - a reduction of strikes and less unionized workers - reflects the dominating ideology of capital. Show more

Keywords: Trade Unions, dockworkers, production restructuring, health and safety

DOI: 10.3233/WOR-2012-0948-5775

Citation: Work, vol. 41, no. Supplement 1, pp. 5775-5777, 2012

Authors: Costa, João | Horn, Milton

Article Type: Research Article

Abstract: This article introduces concepts regarding management design, the electronic marketplace and recommendation systems, as well as uses a revised bibliography proposing the relationship between applied management design strategies and recommendation products identified through Cazella [6] and the different types of perceived quality developped by Michalos and Schwartz.

Keywords: Management design, e-Commerce, Recommendation systems, Informatic Ergonomics

DOI: 10.3233/WOR-2012-0949-5778

Citation: Work, vol. 41, no. Supplement 1, pp. 5778-5780, 2012

Authors: Bau, Lucy M.S. | Puquirre, Magda S.E.S. | Buso, Sandro A. | Ogasawara, Érika L. | Marcon Passero, Carolina R. | Bianchi, Marcos C.

Article Type: Research Article

Abstract: The conception of a product is closely tied to its adaptation level to the users. In this view, designers are increasingly oriented to survey the needs and features of the users. This paper aims at developing a diagnosis of employees working in high-complexity activities in a petrochemical company, in light of the physical and operating changes in the Integrated Center of Control; assessing the reception sensibility to changes; assessing the cognitive pattern of the group; and making suggestions that might eliminate or minimize the difficulties in the transition process of the change, in order to reduce the adaptation period. The …field of study comprised 111 production, transfer and storage operators, forming 5 groups of desktop activities. The stages of the study followed the following flow: survey of the prescribed tasks and organizational structure; Concentrated Attention test; application of the Work and Disease Risks Inventory (ITRA, Portuguese acronym); and structured psychological interview. The ITRA results pointed to a serious cognitive cost (3.83) for all five groups, this being the largest intervention focus. The items: division of task contents (3.52), social professional relationships (2.93), quality of the physical environment (2.91), physical cost (3.24), emotional cost (2.71), freedom of expression (3.77), professional fulfillment (3.41); experience and suffering (2.75), lack of recognition (2.18) and physical injuries (2.07) were considered critical. Meanwhile, social damages (1.64) and psychological injuries (1.35) are bearable. As to the Concentrated Attention test, most workers registered average level. In the individual interviews, workers showed that larger involvement in the process of physical, organizational and operational change in the desktops and on field works was required, as well as the follow up of implementations, so as to reduce the adaptation process and prevent rework (furniture, equipment, noise, form of communication with the area and training for the changes). As a result of the findings handed to the management and returned to the workers, several actions were implemented on ergonomic non-conformities found in the analysis. It is possible to prove the importance of the insertion of cognitive and organizational ergonomics in the building projects of new facilities for high-complexity activities in petrochemical plants. Show more

Keywords: petrochemicals, management, high-complexity activities

DOI: 10.3233/WOR-2012-0950-5781

Citation: Work, vol. 41, no. Supplement 1, pp. 5781-5784, 2012

Authors: Kawata, Yujiro | Kirino, Eiji | Mizuno, Motoki | Hirosawa, Masataka

Article Type: Research Article

Abstract: Mind reading is the ability to understand another person’s thoughts, intentions, and feelings (Whiten, 1991). The purpose of this study was to clarify which part of the brain is evoked while mind reading in functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) experiments, using a mind reading task, the Reading Mind in the Eyes Test (RME: Baron-Cohen et al., 2001) with four choices (mental state words). The participants were right-handed and sex-matched healthy Japanese university students (10 males and 10 females, age range 19-25). We used periodic ABA…block design in the fMRI sessions. Task A (an experimental task) was the mind reading task …and Task B (a control task) was the age-gender task. In order to clarify the activated region of the brain while mind reading, we calculated the difference between the degrees of BOLD (Blood-oxygen-level dependent) activation during the Task A and Task B. The results showed that there was a significant difference in activation of the right superior occipital gyrus, and the left parietal lobe. These findings indicated that these regions were used while mind reading. The role of these regions was discussed in terms of the findings from previous studies. Show more

Keywords: Reading mind, Social cognition, Social brain, fMRI, BOLD

DOI: 10.3233/WOR-2012-0951-5785

Citation: Work, vol. 41, no. Supplement 1, pp. 5785-5787, 2012