ABSTRACT
This paper explores some likely changes over the next decade to job design as practised by Ergonomists/Human Factors Engineers. The context for this paper are the foreseeable changes in the manufacturing domain that will be produced by the global drivers that require a sustainability response (Allwood, Ashby et al. 2011, Sulston 2012, Lavery, Penell et al. 2013). The paper outlines briefly what these global drivers are, the likely response of manufacturing, the outlines of which can already be seen, and the implications for job design in manufacturing. These implications are likely to be apparent in other domains as well.
