Pandemics harm the economy. Governments use social distancing and other non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPI) to tackle the pandemic. Recent data from the 1918 influenza pandemic ('Spanish Flu') suggest that a strict NPI policy on average not only reduces mortality but is also helpful to...

Managers usually associate ergonomics with occupational health and safety and related legislation, not with business performance. In many companies, these decision makers seem not to be positively motivated to apply ergonomics for reasons of improving health and safety. In order to strengthen...

Het vakgebied ergonomie bestudeert de interactie tussen mens en deontworpen technische en organisatorische omgeving. In de product-ergonomiewordt deze kennis gebruikt om gebruiksvriendelijke producten te ontwikkelen enin de productie-ergonomie om mensvriendelijke (productie)-processen...

A demonstration is available showing how NCA can be conducted in three steps: 1. Load the NCA R package, 2. Load the data that you want to analyze, 3. Use the nca_analysis() function to run the analysis. The demonstration also shows how the new statistical test for NCA can be performed (Dul, van...

Theoretical "necessary but not sufficient" statements are common in the organizational sciences. Traditional data analyses approaches (e.g., correlation or multiple regression) are not appropriate for testing or inducing such statements. This paper proposes Necessary Condition Analysis (NCA) as...