Labor Process Management: The Feedback Principle
To monitor human state in the workplace, a management system built on the feedback principle is utilized. Its task is to evaluate the effectiveness of therapeutic measures through the state of the workers' leading physiological functions. The process is divided into three interrelated stages:
- Performance Dynamics. This is the baseline sequence of work execution. Under ideal conditions, results follow linearly, one after another, without external intervention.
- Assessment and Monitoring. At each stage of labor, information is collected regarding the worker's physiological state and work results. The information flow is directed from the work stages to the analyzing system (computer). This makes it possible to detect the slightest deviations in vital parameters in real time.
- Correction and Management. Based on the analytical data obtained, the computer system generates control signals. This flow is directed in reverse—from the correction system directly to the activity stages. The main goal of this link is to normalize physiological functions and optimize the labor process itself.
Systems Approach and Non-Pharmacological Rehabilitation
Systems analysis of industrial activity opens up opportunities for evidence-based occupational selection and career guidance for young specialists entering a specific industry. If the work requires constant strain on physiological functions, employees are prescribed a set of restorative measures.
All non-pharmacological rehabilitation is carried out under strict objective control of performance indicators. The main task is to correct the body's state in the most strenuous areas of work. The preventive complex includes four groups of measures:
- Social: reorganization of work processes, educational talks, and employee incentive measures.
- Hygienic: relaxing massage, therapeutic water procedures, and sauna visits.
- Physical and reflexogenic: acupuncture, breathing exercises, classical physical training, and yoga practices.
- Organizational: utilization of specialized health centers and prescription of necessary therapeutic procedures at the enterprise level.
Social Link of Self-Regulation and Behavioral Medicine
Under extreme conditions or when performing extremely monotonous, demanding work, a person's internal self-regulation mechanisms often become depleted and insufficient. In such situations, the external social link comes to the aid. It acts as a socially conditioned additional external element of regulation.
The non-pharmacological rehabilitation methods described above are commonly referred to as "non-pharmacological self-regulation." Their mechanism of action is unique: external correction acts as a sort of "self-regulation prosthesis." This can be compared to using corrective lenses for decreased visual acuity.
This approach is the foundation of behavioral medicine—a field based on utilizing additional external regulatory mechanisms. Its basic postulate states: since many modern diseases (influenced, among other things, by scientific and technological progress) develop against the background of altered behavior and lifestyle, therapy must also be behavioral. Correction of impaired functions is carried out predominantly through lifestyle normalization rather than pharmacological intervention.