Workplace Well-Being
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Course code
TST7023.LT
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Course title in Estonian
Tööalane heaolu
Course title in English
Workplace Well-Being
ECTS credits
4.0
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Examination
lecturer of 2024/2025 Autumn semester
Not opened for teaching. Click the study programme link below to see the nominal division schedule.
lecturer of 2024/2025 Spring semester
Not opened for teaching. Click the study programme link below to see the nominal division schedule.
Course aims
To develop a systematic understanding of the human capacity for work in the context of the physical and mental well-being and taking into consideration the contemporary expectations on the work performance as well as for the changing social, technical and natural environment.
Brief description of the course
The course will cover the following topics:
Evolution, performance and working capacity
- Modern environment and maladaptation
- Trends of demands on working capacity and novel ways of work
Mechanisms and structure of working capacity
- Emergent properties of a complex adaptive system
- Physical performance
- Mental performance
- Opportunities for synthesis of biological and technological capacities
Measurement of working capacity
Changes in working capacity
- Stress, eustress, distress
- Adaptation
- Biological mechanisms of adaptation
- Technological adaptation
- Virtual and technical environment
- Modulators of adapdation
- Unadaptedness
- Functional overexertion
- Non-functional overexertion
- Overload syndrome
Environmental impact on work performance
- Training and work
- Social and cultural environment
- Forms of work organization
- Role of natural environment
Current trends in policies regarding work
Learning outcomes in the course
Upon completing the course the student:
- is familiar with the theory of human working capacity and related topics, and is able to construct an independent, field specific reasoned position on the challenges as well as of methods of study and expected outcomes.
Teacher
Kristjan Port
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