Description
Book SynopsisFundamental Economic Principles, Methods, and Tools for Addressing Human Systems Integration Issues and Tradeoffs Human Systems Integration (HSI) is a new and fundamental integrating discipline designed to help move business and engineering cultures toward more human-centered systems. Integrating consideration of human abilities, limitations, and preferences into engineering systems yields important cost and performance benefits that otherwise would not have been accomplished. In order for this new discipline to be effective, however, a cultural changestarting with organizational leadershipis often necessary.
The Economics of Human Systems Integration explains the difficulties underlying valuation of investments in people''s training and education, safety and health, and work productivity. It provides an overview of how the field of economics addresses these difficulties, focusing on human issues associated with design, development, production, operations, main
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"It provides an overview of how the field of economics addresses these difficulties, focusing on human issues associated with design, development, production, operations, maintenance, and sustainment of complex systems." (Smart Grid, 9 February 2011)
Table of Contents
Preface.
Contributors.
PART I INTRODUCTION.
1. Introduction (William B. Rouse).
2. Industry and Commercial Context (William B. Rouse).
3. Government and Defense Context (William B. Rouse and Douglas A. Bodner).
PART II ECONOMICS OVERVIEW.
4. Human Capital Economics (William B. Rouse).
5. Labor Economics (Nachum Sicherman).
6. Defense Economics (Keith Hartley).
7. Engineering Economics (William B. Rouse).
PART III MODELS, METHODS, AND TOOLS.
8. Parametric Cost Estimation for Human Systems Integration (Ricardo Valerdi and Kevin Liu).
9. A Spreadsheet-Based Tool for Simple Cost–Benefit Analyses of HSI Contributions During Software Application Development (Deborah J. Mayhew).
10. Multistage Real Options (Michael J. Pennock).
11. Organizational Simulation for Economic Assessment (Douglas A. Bodner).
PART IV CASE STUDIES.
12. HSI Practices in Program Management: Case Studies of Aegis (Aruna Apte).
13. The Economic Impact of Integrating Ergonomics within an Automotive Production Facility (W. Gary Allread and William S. Marras).
14. How Behavioral and Biometric Health Risk Factors Can Predict Medical and Productivity Costs for Employers (Ron Z. Goetzel, Enid Chung Roemer, Maryam Tabrizi, Rivka Liss-Levinson, and Daniel K. Samoly).
15. Options for Surveillance and Reconnaissance (William B. Rouse).
16. Governing Opportunism in International Armaments Collaboration: The Role of Trust (Ethan B. Kapstein).
Index.
