ABSTRACT
Practitioner Summary ............................................................................................ 110 Introduction ............................................................................................................ 110 HF/E Practice in Consultancies ............................................................................. 111
Diversity and Variety .................................................................................... 111 An Expanded Role ........................................................................................ 112 Finances and Workload Management ........................................................... 112 Overcoming Isolation ................................................................................... 114 Limited Capacity and Opportunity ............................................................... 114 Getting and Keeping Clients ......................................................................... 115 Knowledge and Intellectual Property ........................................................... 116 Independence: A Mixed Blessing ................................................................. 116 Editor Reections ......................................................................................... 117
HF/E Practice in Producers, Manufacturers, and Service Providers ...................... 118 End-To-End Involvement .............................................................................. 118 Deep Immersion ............................................................................................ 118 Integration ..................................................................................................... 119 Finding a Niche, Building Awareness, and Adding Value ............................ 119 Who Pays? .................................................................................................... 120 Editor Reections ......................................................................................... 120
HF/E Practice in Universities ................................................................................. 120 Bridging the Research-Practice Gap ............................................................ 121 Getting Involved ........................................................................................... 121 Funding ......................................................................................................... 122 Editor Reections ......................................................................................... 123
HF/E Practice in Governments and Intergovernmental Organizations .................. 123 The Politics and Priorities ............................................................................. 123 Bureaucracy? ................................................................................................ 123 Client Base and Funding ...............................................................................124 Access and Inuence ....................................................................................124 Editor Reections .........................................................................................124
Conclusion ............................................................................................................. 125 Reference ............................................................................................................... 125
The way that human factors and ergonomics (HF/E) ts within an organization and interacts with other organizations has a strong inuence on the practice of HF/E. In this chapter, we consider four broad contexts of HF/E practice via interviews with 17 of the practitioners who have contributed to this book. We consider four organizational contexts: External consultancy; working in producers, manufacturers, and service providers; working in universities and research institutes; and working in governments (including regulators) and intergovernmental organizations. The practitioners reect on the economic, organizational, social, and personal aspects of HF/E practice in these four contexts.
