The need of ergonomics workplace for aging workforce

Noor Azura Dahalan; Siti Nurhijan Mahamad Hasri; Irwan Ibrahim; Hasbullah Othman; Nor Azian Abdul Rahman

doi:10.53730/ijhs.v6nS3.6069

Authors

Noor Azura Dahalan Universiti Teknologi Mara Kampus Puncak Alam Cawangan Selangor Malaysia
Siti Nurhijan Mahamad Hasri Faculty of Business and Management Universiti Teknologi Mara Kampus Puncak Alam Cawangan Selangor Malaysia
Irwan Ibrahim Malaysia Institute of Transport (MITRANS), Universiti Teknologi Mara, Malaysia Faculty of Business and Management, Universiti Teknologi Mara Puncak Alam Campus, Malaysia
Hasbullah Othman Faculty of Business, Communication and Law, INTI International University, Malaysia
Nor Azian Abdul Rahman
norazian9829@uitm.edu.my
Faculty of Business and Management, Universiti Teknologi Mara Kampus Puncak Alam Cawangan Selangor, Malaysia

Keywords:

job performance, workplace ergonomics, aging workforce

Abstract

Workplace environment plays a major role towards the employees’ performance since job performance is important as it plays a major role in determining the productivity of the organization itself. For the older the worker of aging adult worker, this group are more concern on ergonomics issues and needed to be see to ensure the continuity of excellent performance and productivity of the company. Thus, this research explores how the workplace ergonomics affect job performance among aging workforce. Previous studies focused on ergonomics among workers but not specific towards aging workforce. This study aims on how to increase or maintain older workers’ job performance by providing better workplace ergonomics and proposed a conceptual framework of the factors of ergonomics workplace for aging workforce.

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