In a magnificent book, pioneer of occupational psychology Robert Kahn describes the affective relationships to work (1). Mainly for didactic purposes, his description characterizes these relationships as afflictive, addictive, or fulfilling. The author exemplifies afflictive relationships by describing a worker on an assembly line repeating the same movements over and over, thousands of times a...

1. FOREMAN GE. Journal coverage in the nursing indexes: International Nursing Index and Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature. Med Ref Serv Q 1983 spring; 2(l):1-6. 2. CALDWELL J, ELLINGSON C. A comparison of overlap: ERIC and Psychological Abstracts. Database 1979 Jun;2(2):62-7. 3. BRANDON AN, HILL DR. Selected list of books and journals in allied health sciences. Bull Med L...

Design to Criteria scheduling is the process of custom tailoring a way to achieve a high level task via actions described in a T MS model of the task to t a particular client s quality cost and duration criteria or needs At the heart of the Design to Criteria paradigm is the ability to determine how well a particular schedule or schedule abstraction ts a set of design criteria The process of me...