The document discusses fatigue in the workplace. It defines fatigue as the general state of an individual resulting from continued activity, which affects work efficiency and satisfaction. The document outlines the symptoms of physical and psychological fatigue and their effects, such as reduced productivity and health issues. It then discusses some common causes of industrial fatigue, including long work hours without breaks, poor work environments, monotonous tasks, and health problems. Finally, it provides some measures to avoid fatigue, such as improving work conditions, reducing hours, adding rest breaks, improving machinery, and addressing stress, sleep, or relationship issues through lifestyle changes or time off.

1. Business Psychology
Fatigue
TopicsTopics : ●Definition ●Symptoms of Fatigue ●Effects of Fatigue: ●Definition ●Symptoms of Fatigue ●Effects of Fatigue
●Causes of Fatigue ●Measures to Avoid Fatigue●Causes of Fatigue ●Measures to Avoid Fatigue
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2. □ Fatigue
It is the general state of individual resulting from the continues
activity.
It affects the efficiency of mind and the general feeling of
worker.
Harell named it ‘negative appetite for work’.
The layman used the term ‘tiredness’ for fatigue.
Three main characteristics of fatigue:
•It affects the efficiency of the workers and thus reduces the
quality of work.
•Workers feel dissatisfied with the continuance of the work
and desires rests or stoppage of work.
•It may involve change in the physical condition of man such
as high or low blood pressure.
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3. □ Symptoms of Fatigue/ Types of Fatigue
Physical FatiguePhysical Fatigue: A person may feel tired in
physically, feeling drowsy, feel heavy and headache,
feel pain in eyes, hands, legs and even back.
He/she feels lazy to keep standing rather wants to lie
down on a bed; feel thirsty, get slow down at
work, sweat too much, heartbeat goes up etc.
Psychological FatiguePsychological Fatigue: A person does not want to
think; rather they lose motivation, attention,
patience etc. enthusiasm decreases, active work and
carefulness decline a lot. For this reason productivity
of a person hampers.
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4. □ Effects of Fatigue
The fatigue affects the efficiency and productivity of
worker and the industry.
Physical and psychological health of the worker is
adversely affected.
It affects the productivity and efficiency of the
workers, which ultimately affects the production, the
costs and the quality of the production.
Other effects such as wastage of material, increase
in the possibilities of accidents etc.
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5. Monotony or
an
unpleasant
job
Faulty machine
design to make
inconvenient and
painful movement
Inadequat
e, lighting,
heating,
noise,
speed etc.
Length of manual
without proper
interval
Fatigue
Ill-health of
worker, family life
and his/her interest
Recovery
□ Causes of Industrial Fatigue
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6. Industrial fatigue may be the outcome of one or more of
the allowing factors:
Unreasonably long hours of work without proper intervals.
Faulty machine design due to which the workers may have
to make inconvenient and painful movement.
Inconvenient and awkward (clumsy) posture on the work
bench, i.e. working in a standing or banding position
continuously for a long time or sitting cross-legged.
Personal factors such as ill-health of worker, family life
and
his interest in the job.
Uncongenial environment such as inadequate, lighting,
heating, noise, speed etc.
Monotony or an unpleasant job.
Causes of Industrial Fatigue
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7. □ Measures to Avoid Fatigue
Work environments should be improved, i.e., to provide
for better lighting etc. and to arrange for better materials
and machines etc.
Working hours should be reduced.
Hawthorne Researches show that the provisions of
adequate rest pauses reduce fatigue considerably.
Improvement in machines and methods reduces fatigue.
Unnecessary movements on machines may be reduced
thereby.
○○ Medical Measurement to Avoid FatigueMedical Measurement to Avoid Fatigue
Getting more sleep
Learning better ways to cope with stress
Changing jobs or learning new ways of dealing with career
challenges
Taking a vacation
Dealing with relationship problemsSMS Kabir,
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