Biomedical subjects

L C Buffardi

Publications and source records attributed to L C Buffardi.

3 recordsLinked to original sources

PubMed2000

Relationships between ability requirements and human errors in job tasks.

This article describes a program of research investigating the relations between abilities required to perform job tasks and human error probabilities while performing these tasks. Study 1, using objectively derived human errors made in performing Air Force job tasks, evaluated an ability-requirements classification methodology and found that error rates were related to the numbers, types, and levels of different abilities required. In Study 2, subject matter expert panels used the methodology to identify the ability requirements of tasks in 2 different jobs found in each of 2 types of nuclear power plants. This study, using a task-anchored scale of human error probability, replicated the findings of Study 1, identified 2 ability requirements that cross-validated in predicting task-error probabilities across both jobs and plants, and identified other abilities specific to error probabilities in each job.

Cognition↗

PubMed1999

The impact of dependent-care responsibility and gender on work attitudes.

On the basis of a survey of 18,120 federal employees in dual-income households, six 5-stage hierarchical multiple regression analyses, controlling for 10 demographic variables, assessed the impact of child care, elder care, and gender on work-family balance and various facets of job satisfaction. Elder-care responsibility was associated with lower levels of satisfaction with perceived organizational support, pay, leave benefits, and work-family balance, whereas the negative main effects of child care were limited to leave benefits and work-family balance. However, child-care responsibility also interacted with gender: Its negative influence was greater on women's work-family balance and leave satisfaction. Decrements in satisfaction associated with dependent care on the "sandwich generation" were additive, not interactive.

Adult↗

PubMed1997

Child-care satisfaction: linkages to work attitudes, interrole conflict, and maternal separation anxiety.

Analysis of a 20-item measure of child-care satisfaction (CCS) revealed 3 interpretable factors: Caregiver Communication, Dependability, and Attentiveness. These CCS factors were used, along with employer sensitivity to child-care needs and spousal support, in hierarchical multiple regressions to predict various measures of work attitudes and role strain. Replicated across 2 samples of employed women, the CCS factors demonstrated differential patterns of relationships in which Caregiver Attentiveness was associated with lower professional-self role conflict and higher levels of affective organizational commitment and job satisfaction, whereas Caregiver Communication was associated with lower levels of both professional-parent conflict and maternal separation anxiety. These findings support the position that CCS is central to the functioning of employed mothers in both work and family domains.

Adult↗