Smart Health Care Monitoring Technologies to Improve Employee Performance in Manufacturing

In today's economic context the input via productivity of highly skilled employees are crucial assets in manufacturing. The ageing of skilled workforce and unconducive work environment are some of the challenges that hold back competitiveness. Employee performance and productivity are influenced by a number of factors including satisfaction, health, safety, comfort, welfare. This paper emphasizes the human factor as a critical asset in the value chain and presents new approaches for motivating and safeguarding the employees. The collected data enables to design a human centric employee performance measurement system comprising of various indices. As a result management can make decisions based on quantitative information towards employee satisfaction, physical wellbeing and attract workforce to stay longer in the labour market. ICT tools are exploited to support the integration of different developments forming a framework that combines modules that monitor several health and well-being parameters and analysing how they affect employee performance. (C) 2015 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd.