Differential Analysis of Adaptation Strategies of Fly-In-Fly-Out Personnel

Abstract

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The Job Performance of Fly-In-Fly-Out Workers in Industrial Enterprises (on the Example of Oil and Gas Production, Diamond Mining Production, and Construction)

“…The emergency adaptation strategy is characteristic of employees who are just adapting to new working conditions and has the following features: it is physiologically oriented and uneven, while it looks effective, since it allows maintaining a relatively high level of the functional state until the end of the fly-in period but ultimately leads to a general decline in health, which will become obvious after a couple of years of fly-in-fly-out work [56].…”

“…The second cluster representatives are distinguished by the use of both economical and emergency strategies. An economical adaptation strategy consists of a more consistent and deliberate use of psychological mechanisms of self-regulation, in the ability to consciously subordinate one's state and mood to professional tasks, and in the ability to perform most tasks at the level of skills and automatisms [56]. It is typical for them to give high differentiated assessments of the danger of professional situations during the fly-in period, which may indicate either their caution or a desire to provide for various options for solutions, and it may also mean insufficient adaptation and uncertainty.…”