All human activity, along with associated emergent problematic situations and opportunities, is embedded in context. The ‘context’ is, however, a a melange of different contexts. An approach that I have found useful is to spend time considering contextual influences (e.g., on decision making, at multiple levels of organisations) on problematic situations or potential solutions, more explicitly.
HindSight Issue 30 on Wellbeing is now online at SKYbrary. You can download the full issue, and individual articles. HindSight magazine is free and published twice a year, reaching tens of thousands of readers in aviation and other sectors worldwide. You will find an introduction to this Issue in this post, along with links to the magazine and the individual articles.
Understanding and intervention for system performance and human wellbeing is rooted – to some extent – in four kinds of thinking. In this short series, I outline these. This post focuses on humanistic thinking.
‘Human Factors’ (or Ergonomics) is often presented as something that it’s not, or as something…
‘Human Factors’ (or Ergonomics) is often presented as something that it’s not, or as something…
‘Human Factors’ (or Ergonomics) is often presented as something that it’s not, or as something…
‘Human Factors’ (or Ergonomics) is often presented as something that it’s not, or as something…
In this post, I outline four common homes for HF/E within organisations, drawing on personal experience in each of the four organisational divisions in different organisations. I conclude with some of the implications of organisational homelessness.
The term ‘Human Performance’ (and ‘Human and Organisational Performance’ (or HOP) has become increasingly common…
This article was published in The Ergonomist, published by the Chartered Institute of Ergonomics and…
Humanistic Systems 