Title
Users' errors and error handling: its relationships with task structure and social support
Abstract
Errors are usually studied in the laboratory. This is useful, but larger impact factors like organizational variables cannot be observed there. In our study, we observed computer users in their ordinary work situation in the office. Organizations have an impact on particular work settings by determining the concrete task structure and the social climate. Traditionally, the two most important task structure variables have been job complexity and job discretion. Job complexity of a particular work task influences which errors appear and how they are dealt with. A high level of job discretion implies that the workers can decide many issues at work, e.g. the timing, sequencing and the content of plans and goals at work (Frese, 1987).
Year
DOI
Venue
1991
10.1145/122488.122497
ACM SIGCHI Bulletin
Keywords
DocType
Volume
important task structure variable,particular work setting,job complexity,error handling,ordinary work situation,job discretion,particular work task influence,larger impact factor,concrete task structure,social support,high level,computer user
Journal
23
Issue
Citations 
PageRank 
2
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Michael Frese19014.08
Felix C. Brodbeck2516.05
Dieter Zapf3143.21
Jochen Prümper45515.85