Smart Health Care Monitoring Technologies to Improve Employee Performance in Manufacturing

Abstract

In today's economic context the input via productivity of highly skilled employees are crucial assets in manufacturing. The ageing of skilled workforce and unconducive work environment are some of the challenges that hold back competitiveness. Employee performance and productivity are influenced by a number of factors including satisfaction, health, safety, comfort, welfare. This paper emphasizes the human factor as a critical asset in the value chain and presents new approaches for motivating and safeguarding the employees. The collected data enables to design a human centric employee performance measurement system comprising of various indices. As a result management can make decisions based on quantitative information towards employee satisfaction, physical wellbeing and attract workforce to stay longer in the labour market. ICT tools are exploited to support the integration of different developments forming a framework that combines modules that monitor several health and well-being parameters and analysing how they affect employee performance.

The resource-based vision as a management instrument in the institutionalization of distance education in higher education / A visão baseada em recursos como instrumento de gestão na institucionalização da educação a distância no ensino superior

“…Bhowmick (2019) understands the term distance education in time and space since there is an indication that teachers and students are distant during the teaching-learning process. Thus, distance education is notable for the interaction between teacher and student through technological resources (Kaare & Otto, 2015) that provide the interface of these two elements, although distant from each other in physical terms. In this interface, learning occurs through the connection between those who teach and those who learn through a minimally good internet connection, enabling the communication between these two elements necessary for knowledge production.…”

“…This transmission can be done through voice, video, and other digital media. It considers that using these technological resources (Kaare & Otto, 2015) is the conditioning factor for the link between the teacher and their students so that this educational modality is dialogic and produces the expected results.…”

Employee Perceptions of Well-Being Programs

“…To support the increasing trend in well-being programs, a growing number of tools exists for organizations to measure well-being and performance, but there is no consensus regarding which measurement is the best (Kaare & Otto, 2015;Kuykendall & Tay, 2015;Mukhopadhyay & Wendel, 2013;Slemp, Kern, & Vella-Broderick, 2015;Spence, 2015). Additionally, the existing tools are designed for scientific rigor rather than practical daily use in the field.…”

Exploring technology attitudes and personal–cultural orientations as student readiness factors for digitalised work

“…Digitalised work extends beyond computers and mobile devices to virtual and augmented reality setups (Choi et al , 2015), health monitoring sensors (Kaare and Otto, 2015), brain–computer interfaces (Hancock et al , 2013), speech recognition and computer vision (Zhong et al , 2017), dynamic augmentation (Romero et al , 2016) and hybrid teaming (Richert, 2018). Formerly the stuff of science fiction and digitalisation is driven by transnational programs like Industry 4.0 (Xu et al , 2018) and Society 5.0 (Fukuda, 2019).…”