Psychosocial Consequences of Shifts in the Productivity of a Wooden Furniture Factory

Abstract

The 8-hour workday is a legitimate conquest of workers' rights that took place in Chicago. Also, production, defined as transformation of inputs into goods and services for consumption or investment, demands quality standards. This study was conducted in a wooden furniture private firm for export and domestic market sale. The research was held through observation using a descriptive method and cross-section analysis. The tools used were, for psychosocial risks, the assessment of psychosocial risks at work. For production and quality defects analysis, likert- scales. The study population is 60 employees, working in two shifts in wooden furniture industry. Both groups have similar demographic and labor characteristics. The research has shown that: The level of psychosocial risk in the company´s workers is very high, being greater those considered external to labor rather than labor risk, giving as a result a higher level of stress. The morning shift has more productivity and less stress that the evening group, there is a direct link between the organizational and production model based on several shifts, psychosocial risks and quantity and quality defects on the production process.