Workload Transition - Implications for Individual and Team Performance

Workload transition is a potentially crucial problem in work situations wherein operators are faced with abrupt changes in task demands. People involved include military combat personnel, air-traffic controllers, medical personnel in emergency rooms, and long-distance drivers. They must be able to respond efficiently to sudden increases in workload imposed by a failure, crisis, or other, often unexpected, event.
This book provides a systematic evaluation of workload transition. It focuses on a broad spectrum of activities ranging from team cooperation to the maintenance of this problem on a theoretical level and offers several practical solutions.

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Provides a systematic evaluation of workload transition. This book focuses on a broad spectrum of activities ranging from team cooperation to the maintenance of this problem on a theoretical level and offers several practical solutions.

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• Authors: Board on Human-Systems Integration, Division Of Behavioral And Social Scienc, Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, Dean R. Gerstein, National Academy Of Sciences, National Research Council, Panel on Workload Transition
• Assisted by: Beverly Messick Huey (Editor), Christopher D Wickens (Editor), Christopher D. Wickens (Editor), Charles D. Wickins (Editor)
• Publisher: National Academies Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.02.1993
• EAN: 9780309047968
• ISBN: 978-0-309-04796-8
• No. of pages: 304
• Dimensions: 153 mm x 228 mm x 19 mm
• Weight: 485 g
• Subjects: Guides > Self-help, everyday life > Lifestyle, personal development; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Management