Productivity of workers is important to the aspect a job. Where, the level of the productivity can be evaluate whether the employee perform or not with the job. The level of achievement of the productivity of an worker depends on level of work tasks that they do. On the other hand, the productivity of the worker can determine the successful of the organization. To be that objective of the organization success, the management must ensure that provide the safety environment to their worker. The high productivity can be motivating the worker to perform better.
Productivity contributes to value creation or added value by making continuously better use of resources to contribute to growth, innovation and employment it is not seen just as a statistical
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Psychosocial hazard in workplace consist of a negative workplace atmosphere such as bullying, violence or sexual harassment. Psychosocial hazards have the potential to harm our health and safety, physical and mental, and health and safety at work. Each employee who exposed to psychosocial hazards is disturbances of emotion (Shibbir Ahmad 2013). Worker will objection to come to work after interrupted by other employees. In this case, it slowly affects the productivity of the worker of their job. Often, the new worker will face with case bullying from senior worker with a lot of task. So, the new worker would stress with a lot of task and they cannot be concrete toward each task. It is the negative impact that the worker face and it influence worker productivity. Sexual harassment also occurs in the workplace. It usually occurs to the women worker. Actually, sexual harassment will give a big impact toward emotion of …show more content…
It is because, in order to enhance productivity among worker, they must know the knowledge of the OSH. Because of that, the management the worker into training programmers in order to increases their knowledge about the safety and technical to use the equipment in the workplace (Dr. Kimani Chege 2014). So, the worker feels confident and increases their morale to doing the job. The morale of contract workers is increase because the management recognizes their importance to the organization or their safety at work. On the other hand, efficiency of production will be increases thereby enhance productivity. While low morale reduces productivity because workers breed resentment against management and they do not work to the best of their
These organisms might be fungus, viruses, or bacteria. Physical hazards are a broad range of hazards and include noise, vibration, temperature and more. There are multitudes of controls for physical hazards. The final hazard encompasses ergonomic hazards. Ergonomics includes repetitious movements, poorly set up work stations, and over using of body parts.
It can lead to reduced productivity, reduced revenue, high staff turnover, and more. According to Sirota Consulting, the share price of low morale companies saw only three percent increase in price versus an industry average of sixteen percent” (p 1) As reflected in studies by other companies “Several studies find not only do employees experience steep losses in morale after restructuring programs, they also judge those programs to be much less successful than management does.” Further demonstrations and studies found that, “Reengineering systems and processed in one thing, but reengineering employee attitudes in another. “ (Begley, 1995,
Productivity can only be increased, to expand the economy, over time through innovation and
“While working at a hospital as a Registered nurse, I was being bullied every day at work I became withdrawn, severely depressed, I would break down and cry every day after work. It was a nightmare,” explained Nurse Jackie. Horizontal bullying should not be neglected it is a life-threatening problem affecting the healthcare. Nurse to nurse bullying in the workplace can have an impact on new nurses, the treatment of the patients, and lack of job satisfaction. Imagine being a nurse and additionally feeling nervous about taking care of a challenging patient or meticulously achieving all of the medical records.
[A HEAD] Health and safety legislation 1 [DF] The Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 is known as an “umbrella act”. [PIC REF ATP.13] Whatever sort of business you are, there is always the possibility of an accident or damage to someone's health. All work exposes people to hazards, be they: loads which have to be manually handled; dangerous machinery; toxic substances; electricity; working with display screen equipment or even psychological hazards such as stress. Attention to health and safety is not just about being socially responsible.
Despite employees investing more time at work, they are achieving less, i.e. the output rate per input unit as measured by the number of hours worked per worker, the productivity keeps plummeting, reaching the lowest levels in twenty-five years (Seager N.p). The author attributes this dramatic deterioration in productivity to various reasons including the rising wage inequalities which have "barely increased in the past 15 years, " and the country has been subject to the greatest decline in real pay after the recession among all OECD countries (Seager N.p). Further, there is a lack of motivation to keep the employees on the job due to the inadequate wage compensation, short-term contracts, and inadequate employee training for efficient service delivery. She sums up by suggesting that employee motivation (autonomy, fair remuneration, engagement) is crucial to enhancing productivity for corporates in the long
The Pepper Construction Company continued to develop as an organization in all facets of operations except one category, safety. Mr. Pepper realized that there need to be a change and informed his employees that the most vital component of the company is the employees. As the push for safety continued, the staff realized the importance of a healthy work environment/ employee’s health and decided to put safety as a priority. With management encouraging employees to be more
Once the morale is damaged it's hard to regain it back as well as trust. Using the proper channels can alleviate this problem from occurring. In order to maintain a good relationship in the workplace, everyone must be open and honest with each other as well. You must treat others as you want to be treated.
That is a major stressor in figuring out if you are going to work out in a new place, doing new skills, and achieving new goals. Edwards (2014) identifies verbal and physical aggression in the workplace. Verbal aggression is the most common, which involved being yelled at, cursed at, and being intimidated. For physical aggression, emergency department nurses are expected to see this most often than other nursing settings. If the nurse remains unaware of these occurrences, and decides to hold in feelings toward this type of abuse the nurse is taking on, then they are more likely to suffer from depression and anxiety in their career.
In extreme cases, long-term stress or traumatic events at work may lead to psychological problems and be conducive to psychiatric disorders resulting in absence from work and preventing the worker from being able to work again Some people who experience stress may engage in unhealthy practices such as; smoking, excessive drinking, poor diet and little exercise. They may become distressed, irritable, enjoy their work less, and feel less committed to work, have difficulty thinking logically or making decisions. Generally we view stress as having either psychological and/or physiological reactions that affect health. (Doddy & lyons,
Sexual harassment and sexual assault are very serious issues happening today in the workplace. Women or men have suffered from unsolicited sexual behaviors that are typically provoked by someone “higher” in position. “Sexual harassment especially has been a fixture in the workplace since women began to work outside their homes” (Fitzgerald, 1993). It is solely the responsibility of the employer to ensure that all employees within are aware and are very cautions of laws, misconduct, and liabilities. Employers must enforce the Policy Prohibiting Discrimination and further extend those laws and guidelines to their employees.
Theoretical Framework This study is postulated on the theories, concepts and principles regarding on Workplace Bullying and its impact on employees productivity and performance. According to Einarsen’s conceptual framework Model (see Figure 1) of the nature and cause of workplace bullying (Einarsen 2003; as cited in Einarsen, 2005), three elements can describe the causes of workplace bullying: individual, social and organizational. Hoel and Stalin (2003; as cited in Lewis, 2004) suggested that there are four antecedents to organizational causes of workplace bullying, namely: the changing nature of work, how work is organized, the organizational culture, and leadership. The changing nature of work can be attributed to globalization, mergers and the current economic recession, among others (McCarthy, 2003).
In a career job such as human resource management, the effectiveness of hostile work environment for claims of sexual harassment is evaluated. Hostile work environments create confusion with in the workplace that affect coworkers and change in terms of employment. Examples of hostile work behavior in an abusive work environment are the display of pornographic activity, groping and grabbing, or sexual remarks and jokes (‘Sexual harassment that creates a hostile work environment’, n.d.). To determine if a work environment is hostile, EEOC investigators look in the sexual harassment cases. Equal Employment Opportunity Plan (EEOP) is a comprehensive document that analyzes a recipient 's relevant labor market data, as well as the recipient 's
Scholars also pointed out that social support is a bridge between employees and organizations. Through interpersonal interaction and assistance, we can not only meet the employees' feelings, self-esteem appreciation, belonging and security needs, but also help them to enhance their resilience in confronting with challenges, pressures, and difficulties, have been considered that receiving support from supervisor and peer can directly help employees to cope with workplace stress (Cheryl, 2009). Nursing work required professional training, problems or tough situations encountered in workplace, in contrast to the friends or family, colleagues, close preceptors or unit supervisors may exchange experiences and recognize each other which is important force to help the novice nurse get through an adaptation phase independently (Kerber, et al., 2015).Hutchinson et al. (2008) suggest that the organizational characteristics of the nursing workplace are a very important prerequisite factor in nursing WPB model. The factors such as tolerance, awareness, legitimate power and rules are over-used in the workplace bullying, therefore, starting from each unit, from the supervisors to each colleague, establish awareness and cognitive of bullying situational, and introspect whether exceeding of authority and limitation in speech or attitude to others have caused bullying behavior, moreover establish anti-bullying workplace atmosphere are important steps to solve WPB.As administrative directors, regularly investigate the workplace bullying, setup counseling hotlines, provide staff care and help promptly, to create a safe and "zero-tolerance workplace bullying" working environment are positive, aggressive direction to go
Furthermore, workplace harassment results in loss of time and productivity due to negative circumstances keeping employees preoccupied, loss of skill and experience due to employees leaving the organization and harm to company’s market