The predictive qualities of operator characteristics for process control performance: The influence of personality and cognitive variables

Burkolter, Dina; Kluge, Annette; Sauer, Jürgen; Ritzmann, Sandrina

doi:10.1080/00140130802376067

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“…In terms of potential strategies to reduce recurrent injuries, our results suggest that measures of risk tolerance would not be appropriate selection tools for hiring companies that want to rely on ability and personality tests to identify workers at greater risk of recurrent injuries . At the same time, our evidence attributes a stronger predictive power to individuals’ “revealed risky preferences,” that is, specific risky behaviors that we find to be related to higher injury probabilities.…”

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Workers’ Risk Tolerance and Occupational Injuries

Galizzi

Tempesti

2015

Risk Analysis

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This study explores the relationship between individuals' risk tolerance and occupational injuries. We analyze data from a national representative survey of U.S. workers that includes information about injuries, risk tolerance, cognitive and noncognitive attributes, and risky behaviors. We measure risk tolerance through questions regarding individuals' willingness to gamble on their lifetime income. We estimate zero-inflated count models to assess the role played by such measures on workers' recurrent injuries. We discuss some implications of our results for future research and occupational safety policies. Our results highlight the concurrent and changing role played by individual, work, and environmental factors in explaining recurrent incidents. They show that risk tolerance affects recurrent injuries, although not in the direction that proponents of the concept of proneness would expect. Our measure of risk aversion shows that individuals who are somewhat more risk tolerant have fewer recurrent injuries than those who are risk averse. But the estimated relationship is U-shaped, not monotonic and, therefore, not easy to predict. At the same time, we find that individuals' "revealed risk preferences"-specific risky behaviors-are related to higher injury probabilities. Demanding working conditions, measures of socioeconomic status, health, and safety problems experienced by workers during their youth remain among the most important factors explaining the phenomena of recurrent injuries. So our results contribute also to the important debate about the relationship between health and socioeconomic status.

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confidence: 99%

Workers’ Risk Tolerance and Occupational Injuries

Galizzi

Tempesti

2015

Risk Analysis

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“…Researchers do not agree with the notion that motivation to transfer is closely related to actual transfer. As Gegenfurtner () has summarized, some researchers contend that motivation to transfer is a critical component for actual transfer (e.g., Gegenfurtner et al, ), while others argue that the relationship between the two is insignificant or negligible (e.g., Burkolter, Kluge, Sauer, & Ritzmann, ). Thus, a limitation of this study is that we did not clearly distinguish between motivation to transfer and actual transfer.…”

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Learning Transfer in Practice: A Qualitative Study of Medical Professionals’ Perspectives

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Roulston²

2015

Human Resource Dev Quarterly

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This article explores how medical professionals’ understanding of their own profession relates to their learning transfer. Based on qualitative interviews with medical professionals participating in a mind–body medicine training program, we examined the rationales provided by medical professionals for their decisions on whether to integrate new learning in their current and future clinical practice. The findings show that medical professionals’ beliefs and values about the profession of medicine and knowledge of the wider healthcare system affect their decisions concerning applying what they had learned in practice. Specifically, (a) medical professionals’ prior beliefs and developing understandings of the purpose of the profession, (b) their prior beliefs and developing understandings of good clinical practice, and (c) their understandings of clinical practice as a marketplace geared to client satisfaction and regulated by the healthcare system are critical to understanding how they decided to transfer what they had learned and to make changes in their practices. Based on the findings, implications for research and practice are proposed.

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“…The cost benefit analysis is not related to the specific risk culprits. Burkolter, Kluge, Sauer, and Ritzmann (2009) propose personnel selection criteria to minimize risk during the operation. Karaulova and Pribytkova (2009) acknowledge the human role within the overall reliability analysis but simply make generalized comments, such as better ergonomic design or improved human-machine interface, as means of risk reduction.…”

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