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Evaluation Of The Factors Which Affect The Safe Sailing Of The Ships, Yijia Wang
Evaluation Of The Factors Which Affect The Safe Sailing Of The Ships, Yijia Wang
Maritime Safety & Environment Management Dissertations (Dalian)
No abstract provided.
The Study On Manning Issues Of Chinese Dry Cargo Ships, Yong Wang
The Study On Manning Issues Of Chinese Dry Cargo Ships, Yong Wang
Maritime Safety & Environment Management Dissertations (Dalian)
No abstract provided.
Workload Transitions And Stress: Changes Over Time, Erik G. Prytz
Workload Transitions And Stress: Changes Over Time, Erik G. Prytz
Psychology Theses & Dissertations
Workload transitions are situations where operators are suddenly confronted with levels of workload substantially different from previously established levels. Workload transitions may affect the operators' state of stress and coping behaviors but previous research has not conclusively demonstrated the nature of those. The first goal of the current work was to investigate the discrepant findings of the previous literature. Two experiments were conducted where participants were asked to perform a digit detection task that suddenly shifted between low and high event rates (i.e., low and high workload, respectively). The first experiment used a large magnitude transition that resulted in a …
Wearing Different Hats: Micro Role Transitions In Two Contexts, Opal Man-Ching Leung
Wearing Different Hats: Micro Role Transitions In Two Contexts, Opal Man-Ching Leung
2014
Individuals make transitions between roles everyday as they move from home to work to other settings. This dissertation extends the work of Goffman (1959), Hall & Richer (1988), and Ashforth et al. (2000, 2001) on the topic of micro role transitions, which are the "frequent and usually recurring transitions, such as the commute between home and work" (Ashforth et al., 2000: 472). While the context of most of the research on micro role transitions has typically been focused on the work-home boundary (e.g. Rothbard et al., 2005; Nippert-Eng, 2008; Greenhaus & Powell, 2006; Hall & Richter, 1988), the three studies …