Office Work in Shop Floor Work. A Case of Cast Metal Machining
The aim of the paper is to conduct a very detailed study on how shop floor workers in a modern company do their work. How their new office part of the work is related to the core activity of, in the case reported here, precise machining of cast metal pieces. The method is ethnographic -field notes, still photographs, and video recordings. What we found is that there were four offices built up at the shop floor. The first office was established by the management, and the other three offices were designed by the shop floor workers. The more close the offices were to the place of the core activity of machining, the simpler they were. They were designed to support the core activity, taking the concrete cirumstances into consideration of how the office support could best be constructed. Further, we found that the office actions of the machinists are close connected to their core activity. These findings are finnally discussed.
Hans Kyhlb(a)ck Berthel Sutter
Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden
国际会议
17th World Congress on Ergonomics(第十七届国际人类工效学大会)
北京
英文
1-9
2009-08-09（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）