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Working Capacity

Course code

TST8010.LT

old course code

Course title in Estonian

Töövõime

Course title in English

Working Capacity

ECTS credits

4.0

Assessment form

assessment

lecturer of 2023/2024 Spring semester

Not opened for teaching. Click the study programme link below to see the nominal division schedule.

lecturer of 2024/2025 Autumn 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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