Ergonomics and management: managing work

    - Raise students' awareness of ergonomics: the ergonomic approach to work and health.
- Enable future engineering and/or management students to jointly target company performance and employee health, by developing and using management tools and methods related to Work.

On completion of this module, students should be able to:
- make the links between health performance and work
- adopt reflective managerial practices
- encourage innovation in work management

Contents

    - The gap between real and prescribed work: from the prescription to the experience of those who work, being able to identify the gaps between real and prescribed work, official quality and "good work"...
- Health at work or health and work? Two paradigms which do not offer the same means of action for prevention and performance
- The importance of regulation for productive efficiency and the health of workers, including engineers and/or managers: setting up and maintaining forums for discussion about work.
- The impact of strategic or tactical decisions on work and performance at operational level? How can they be assessed? How can negative impacts be cushioned?
- Reflections on decision-making, the production of solutions and subsidiarity
- How can we design and implement new management tools that integrate the complexity of the present and do not focus solely on the future (forecasting) and the past (control and evaluation)?
- The manager is also a worker. What is his real job? What is the general content of his prescribed work, and what is the nature of these prescriptions? How can he retain his "power to act"?

Manager

Karine Chassaing

Companies, Trades and Cultures

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