
Human Factors discovers and applies information about human behavior, abilities, limitations, and other characteristics to the design of tools, machines, systems, tasks, jobs, and environments for productive, safe, comfortable, and effective human use.
Understand the four levels of the organization at which failures happen
Raise expectations or rethink the job to counter a culture of low conformance, where training decays, new workers remain untrained, and people stop doing their jobs.
Understand the preconditions that lead to human error
Explore how workplace anger and frustration impact performance, from pay disputes to harassment, and how management factors contribute to systemic issues that derail employees from doing their jobs.
Examine how employee engagement, defined as emotional commitment to the organization and its goals, contrasts with disengagement marked by reduced productivity, withdrawal, absenteeism, and negativity.
Explore how impairment, fatigue, and sleep deprived workers affect performance, showing measurements and problem-solving steps to analyze, improve, and control quality management factors.
The third level of failure in an organization is the supervisory level. In these two videos, we learn more about supervisor selection, and also, the difference between a supervisor and a mediocrevisor
We learn about the most dangerous book ever written
Mediocrevisors are like supervisors, except that they are not very super.
At some point in the day, failure in an organization, be it in safety, or in quality, permeates from the organizational culture. In the first of these two videos, we look at startup scenarios, and understand why organizations develop the way they do. In the second, we look at one of the main reasons for management not doing anything to Improve.
Explore why people don't do their jobs in startups and family businesses, where a driver's bubble and weak processes erode alignment and cause disengagement.
Confront denial in leadership by presenting data, avoiding confirmation bias, and taking a stand to align organizational reality with performance in quality management systems.
In this final episode, we look at how adoption of some of the ISO methodology of plan, do, check, and act, may lead to system improvements.
Human Factors discovers and applies information about human behavior, abilities, limitations, and other characteristics to the design of tools, machines, systems, tasks, jobs, and environments for productive, safe, comfortable, and effective human use. Understand the preconditions, underlying causes, contributions of supervision and management, and organizational issues such as organizational culture which contribute to human error.