Good Work Design

Conceptualisation and Practice for Sustainable Futures
1. Auflage 2027
ISBN: 978-1-032-82016-3
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 368 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Reihe: Workplace Insights

Sustainable businesses depend on regenerative, agile, and innovative ways of working. They must be able to respond to changing conditions while supporting workers and sustaining organisational performance. This requires the perspectives, knowledge, and interests of people at all organisational levels to be meaningfully incorporated into the design of work. By drawing on diverse expertise and lived experience, organisations can adapt more effectively, strengthen resilience, and create workplace ecosystems in which people and businesses can flourish.

Good Work Design: Conceptualisation and Practice for Sustainable Futures responds to growing concerns about worker health, safety and wellbeing, alongside the need for productive, resilient and sustainable organisations. It introduces Good Work Design as an integrated framework for understanding and intentionally shaping work. The framework helps organisations clarify their thinking and examine the concepts, conditions, and relationships that influence how work is experienced and performed within a workplace ecosystem. Structured around three interconnected phases, Discovery, Design and Realisation, the book presents new ways of understanding complex workplace challenges and developing practical, human-centred responses. It equips readers to improve work and organisational performance while protecting health and safety, strengthening wellbeing, and contributing to more sustainable futures.

Written for human factors and ergonomics practitioners, design and systems engineers, organizational and human resource professionals, occupational health and safety practitioners, researchers, and leaders driving workforce and organizational transformation, this book complements the editors' companion volume, Transforming Work by Design: Human-Centred Methods and Cases (9781041537571, CRC Press, 2027).

Zielgruppe

Professional Reference

Autoren/Hrsg.

Crawford, Elise

Pazell, Sara

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Bereichsspezifisches Management Management: Führung & Motivation
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Unternehmensorganisation, Corporate Responsibility Unternehmenskultur, Corporate Governance
• Technische Wissenschaften Technik Allgemein Technische Zuverlässigkeit, Sicherheitstechnik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Section I Foundations of Good Work Design. 1. Envisaging Regenerative Futures Through Good Work Design. 2. Acknowledged Work Imperfections: The 'Good' Aspect of Work Design. 3. From Relationships to Robots: The Value and Vitality of Human Factors and Ergonomics in Work Design. 4. Embracing Design: Understanding its Value, Unveiling a Unified Design Model and Exploring Causative Factors Contributing to the Design Deficit. Section II Human Experience, Health and Wellbeing. 5. The Natural Function of Dopamine, Serotonin, Oxytocin, and Endorphin at Work. 6. The Essential Human Contribution Toward Resilience in Future Work Systems. 7. Designing a Service System for Better Work Experiences. 8. Healthy Work Design and Wellbeing: The Quest for Total Worker Health®. 9. Important Considerations for the Development of Workplace Mental Ill-Health Prevention and Intervention Programs. 10. Occupational Psychosocial Hazard Exposures and Causal Pathways: From Harm to System Resilience. 11. The Trauma-Informed Workplace: Bringing the Human to Work. Section III Technology, Place and Sustainable Futures. 12. People First: Industrialisation, Machine Compatibility and Human Capability. 13. The Ecological Workplace: Integrating Physical, Cultural and Technological Design. 14. Pilgrimising Work and Its Place.

Über Autor(innen)

Elise Crawford is an award-winning Senior Lecturer at CQUniversity Australia, recognised nationally and internationally for her scholarship of learning and teaching. Specialising in Human Factors and Ergonomics, she also serves as the Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) Industry Placement Coordinator within the Safety Sciences discipline in the College of Science and Sustainability. Her teaching embeds good work design principles and practices, preparing students to create safer, healthier and more human-centred workplaces. Dr. Crawford is a member of the Appleton Institute and Senior Fellow of Advance HE (UK) and she holds professional certifications in OHS through the Australian Institute of Health and Safety, and in Human Factors and Ergonomics through the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society of Australia. She also holds a specialisation in User Experience Research and Design from the University of Michigan, USA, and a doctorate in Human Factors from CQUniversity, focused on optimising new technology in safety-critical work environments.

Sara Pazell is a human-centred, work design strategist and the founder and managing director for ViVID Design Labs, a collective of diverse design strategists and digital technologists to aid workplace transformation, and ViVA Health at Work, a human-factors, work design specialty consultancy in Australia. She is also a podcast host of the popular WhyWork® Podcast, examining case law and the redesign of work. Dr. Pazell was awarded her doctorate in Human Factors and Ergonomics from the University of Queensland, Australia, through the Sustainable Minerals Institute, her Master of Business Administration with a major in international business development from the University of La Verne, California, USA, and her Bachelor of Occupational Therapy from the University of South Australia. She has managed business transformation projects in Australia, Southeast Asia, and the United States across diverse industries.