Macroergonomics as a Way for Social
Responsibility: A Study in a University
Hospital
Marcia Gemari Derenevich, Rosimeire Sedrez Bitencourt,
Osiris Canciglieri Junior, and Victor Wu
1 Introduction
Organizations have sought sustainability, not only because of the positive marketing
it can make, but to attend the demands of a society that has been understanding
the need for sustainable development and its relationship with private initiatives
(Evangelista 2010). This trend can be evidenced in the relationship between industrial
developments, which mark and modify how society behaves, and changes in the
concepts of sustainable development and also, in the characteristics of work and
well-being of humans.
The first industrial revolution was marked by the use of energy transformations
in favour of humans and the unbridled use of nature and its resources. There were
some conservationist movements in the United States concerning with the excessive
use of these resources. At the end of this period, the term Ergonomics (from the
Greek term ergon = work and nomos = natural laws) emerges from Jastrzebowski
(1857), although there was still no concern about the worker as an individual in
society because, as well as natural resources, the human being was (and still is)
M. G. Derenevich (B) · R. S. Bitencourt · O. C. Junior
Industrial and Systems Engineering Graduate Program (PPGEPS), Pontifical Catholic University
of Paraná (PUCPR), 1155, Imaculada Conceição St., Curitiba, PR 80215-901, Brazil
e-mail: gemari.marcia@gmail.com
R. S. Bitencourt
e-mail: rosimeire.bitencourt@pucpr.br
O. C. Junior
e-mail: osiris.canciglieri@pucpr.br
V. Wu
Institutional Scholarship Program of Scientific Initiation (PIBIC Jr.), Pontifical Catholic
University of Paraná (PUCPR), 1155, Imaculada Conceição St., Curitiba, PR 80215-901, Brazil
e-mail: victor1668wu@outlook.com
© The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
W. Leal Filho et al. (eds.), Integrating Social Responsibility and Sustainable Development,
World Sustainability Series, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-59975-1_41
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Responsibility: A Study in a University
Hospital
Marcia Gemari Derenevich, Rosimeire Sedrez Bitencourt,
Osiris Canciglieri Junior, and Victor Wu
1 Introduction
Organizations have sought sustainability, not only because of the positive marketing
it can make, but to attend the demands of a society that has been understanding
the need for sustainable development and its relationship with private initiatives
(Evangelista 2010). This trend can be evidenced in the relationship between industrial
developments, which mark and modify how society behaves, and changes in the
concepts of sustainable development and also, in the characteristics of work and
well-being of humans.
The first industrial revolution was marked by the use of energy transformations
in favour of humans and the unbridled use of nature and its resources. There were
some conservationist movements in the United States concerning with the excessive
use of these resources. At the end of this period, the term Ergonomics (from the
Greek term ergon = work and nomos = natural laws) emerges from Jastrzebowski
(1857), although there was still no concern about the worker as an individual in
society because, as well as natural resources, the human being was (and still is)
M. G. Derenevich (B) · R. S. Bitencourt · O. C. Junior
Industrial and Systems Engineering Graduate Program (PPGEPS), Pontifical Catholic University
of Paraná (PUCPR), 1155, Imaculada Conceição St., Curitiba, PR 80215-901, Brazil
e-mail: gemari.marcia@gmail.com
R. S. Bitencourt
e-mail: rosimeire.bitencourt@pucpr.br
O. C. Junior
e-mail: osiris.canciglieri@pucpr.br
V. Wu
Institutional Scholarship Program of Scientific Initiation (PIBIC Jr.), Pontifical Catholic
University of Paraná (PUCPR), 1155, Imaculada Conceição St., Curitiba, PR 80215-901, Brazil
e-mail: victor1668wu@outlook.com
© The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
W. Leal Filho et al. (eds.), Integrating Social Responsibility and Sustainable Development,
World Sustainability Series, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-59975-1_41
609