TITLE:
A Review of Researches on Sleepiness at Workplace
AUTHORS:
Xiang Jiao, Maolin Ye
KEYWORDS:
Sleepiness at Workplace, Job Performance, Accident Rate, Job Rotation
JOURNAL NAME:
Journal of Human Resource and Sustainability Studies,
Vol.4 No.3,
August
4,
2016
ABSTRACT: Sleepiness at workplace, the biological drive to sleep, has a highly negative impact on employees'
working behavior in organizations. Recently, this phenomenon has attached more and more attention
in the management filed; and it has attracted much attention of researchers from other
fields, such as management and psychology. By reviewing and analyzing the previous studies, this
paper clarifies the concepts of sleepiness in the workplace, and then delineates the causes and effects
of sleepiness in the workplace. Through the organizational understanding of the relevant
causes of sleepiness, some intervention measures which can mitigate companies’ sleepiness situation
will be put forward. Finally, the paper has an outlook about the future researches of sleepiness
at workplace.