The industrial revolutions so far have focused on industry and technology. Currently, a fifth revolution is being prepared, Industry 5.0, and it is about the relationship between man and machine and how smart our world will become. The current orientation of society towards the human psyche, in order to discover its limits, but especially its infinite possibilities, brings a new perspective on technology. The challenges of this period are: the use of psychology at the level of the human-machine-work environment relationship; the desire of organizations to achieve European standards, which require employee orientation; the need to find solutions to increase employee’s results, including their well-being, by motivating them at work; discovering practical solutions, which can be applied with minimal costs, in order to increase the well-being of employees.

A reflective, inductive exercise to increase the productivity of employees in the organization is proposed. Starting from the psychological and behavioral profile of the engineers, the ergonomic characteristics of the work environment in the organization are particularized: the physical environment - elements of interior design and the psycho-social environment - the organizational management. Following the modeling of the work environment according to the defining features of the engineers, as a socio-professional category, the well-being of the employees is analyzed, because the ergonomic space is corresponding to the internal needs. Well-being will be compared to employee outcomes and productivity at the organizational level. The proposed approach is to build the physical work environment and to choose the management strategy according to the needs and expectations of employees, based on the relationship of psychological characteristics of engineers, namely ergonomics, well-being and productivity.

The Research Topic covers the areas of psychology, organizational psychology, management and ergonomics. This can include, but is not limited to, the following:
• Analysis of the current state of scientific knowledge in the field of engineering psychology, management strategies and ergonomics specific to the organizations in which engineers work;
• Studying the psychological and behavioural profile of engineers;
• Comparing the psychological and behavioural profile of engineers with that of other socio-professional categories;
• Mathematical modelling of employees' behaviour at work, following the experimental application of the results on the psychological and behavioural profile of engineers at the organizational level, in order to increase their well-being and productivity;
• The impact of managerial styles on the human psyche.

Accepted manuscript types: original research, systematic review, methods, review, hypothesis and theory, perspective, case report, community case study, conceptual analysis, opinion, book review.

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