Integration and embedding interrelated concepts has become a major research field crossing over several scientific areas. Benchmarking, globalisation, sustainable development, clouding information flows, flexible work arrangements, democracy in management and teammanship over leadership are, currently, widely discussed issues among the industrial and academic communities. Systems integration has been reported in several technical areas, namely, in sensor development (organic-inorganic), artificial human tissue development and cybernetic projects. Organisational systems integration is also an appealing research field taking into account the number of papers and journals focusing on that matter. It is intended in this paper, of a mostly conceptual nature, to emphasise potential synergies between macroergonomics and integrated management systems (IMS), as complex systems, based on the available literature and on partial results of a survey focusing on Portuguese companies that enabled highlighting organisational IMS features. It is also intended to emphasise the relative position that ergonomics may assume in management systems integration, namely, on the challenges anticipated to the human in this new organisational reality by reporting on an IMS maturity assessment tool considering macroergonomics and other relevant concepts.

Pedro Domingues

Paulo Sampaio

Pedro M. Arezes

International Journal of Human Factors and Ergonomics

IJHFE publishes high quality international interdisciplinary peer-reviewed manuscripts covering ergonomics and human factors in the design, planning, development and management of technical and social systems for work or leisure, including technical systems, equipment, products and the organisation of work.  Topics covered include  Environmental and physical ergonomics  Human-machine systems design/tool/equipment design  Eliciting human requirements on technology  Usability/comfort/pleasure/cognitive engineering of human-technology interfaces  Anthropometrics/design for people with disabilities  Design of critical systems/equipment for extreme environments  Human performance measurement and modelling  Humans in transportation systems/technologically complex systems  Cognitive ergonomics, information processing, information/multimedia design, expert systems  Acceptability and effectiveness of technology change  Training design, organisational design and psychosocial factors  Management of the complex participation of people in their environment  Human-centred/goal-driven design of technical/organisational systems.    Topics covered include:  -Environmental and physical ergonomics  -Human-machine systems design/tool/equipment design  -Eliciting human requirements on technology  -Usability/comfort/pleasure/cognitive engineering of human-technology interfaces  -Anthropometrics/design for people with disabilities  -Design of critical systems/equipment for extreme environments  -Human performance measurement and modelling  -Humans in transportation systems/technologically complex systems  -Cognitive ergonomics, information processing, information/multimedia design, expert systems  -Acceptability and effectiveness of technology change  -Training design, organisational design and psychosocial factors  -Management of the complex participation of people in their environment  -Human-centred/goal-driven design of technical/organisational systems

The International Journal of Human Factors and Ergonomics publishes high-quality, international, interdisciplinary peer-reviewed manuscripts that cover ergonomics and human factors in the design, planning, development, and management of technical and social systems for work or leisure. Topics include: environmental and physical ergonomics, human-machine systems design/tool/equipment design, eliciting human requirements on technology, usability/comfort/pleasure/cognitive engineering of human-technology interfaces, anthropometrics/design for people with disabilities, design of critical systems/equipment for extreme environments, human performance measurement and modeling, humans in transportation systems/technologically complex systems, cognitive ergonomics, information processing, information/multimedia design, expert systems, acceptability and effectiveness of technology change, training design, organizational design and psychosocial factors, management of the complex participation of people in their environment, and human-centered/goal-driven design of technical/organizational systems.

《International Journal of Human Factors and Ergonomics》致力于发表高质量的国际跨学科同行评审稿件，涵盖在工作或休闲的技术和社会系统设计、规划、开发和管理中的人因工程和人类因素。涉及的主题包括：环境和物理人因工程、人机系统设计/工具/设备设计、技术对人类需求的引导、人-技术界面的可用性/舒适性/愉悦性/认知工程、人体测量/为残疾人设计、极端环境下关键系统/设备的设计、人类性能测量和建模、交通系统/技术复杂系统中的人类、认知人因工程、信息处理、信息/多媒体设计、专家系统、技术变革的可接受性和有效性、培训设计、组织设计和心理社会因素、管理人类在其环境中的复杂参与、人本/目标导向的技术/组织系统设计。

New organisational issues and macroergonomics: integrating management systems

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