Organizational Environment as a source of stress - An Ergonomics View

Abstract

There are many behavioral disturbances in modern man as well as psychosomatic disturbances, like stress. In a highly competitive job market, where the means of work and information are rapidly transformed, one of the stress factors is the professional insecurity. There are also other factors linked to the organization of modern production such as: the space factor and the psycosocial and intersubjective relations of the working environment. The modern organization of work produces stressing conditions which may develop psychosomatic disturbances in the productive agents. Although the professionals feel capable of acting in some places of work, the fast transformations in modern world create some insecurity which provoke anxiety leading to stress. Due to this process, the cognitive ergonomics is formally integrated to the productive system; integrating to the business charts and assuming a technical feature to the extent that it has helped in the transformation of knowledge into production force, so as to measure the work for the man.