"The nineteenth century was marked by great achievements in engineering. Advances in psychology, sociology, and physiology should lead us to as striking advances in 'humaneering' during the twentieth century." The Psychology of Normal People (1940, p. 24) Joseph Tiffin, Frederic Knight, & Charles Josey
Welcome! - Humaneering Institute is the nonprofit global organization formed to create, share, and oversee humaneering technology. Humaneering is biopsychosocial technology that simplifies the application of human-science and -practice principles to the design and management of people-dependent work systems, thus enabling significantly higher levels of operations effectiveness and productivity.
The optimal design of work systems involving people requires using both humaneering and engineering. Humaneering, based on biological, psychological and social science, enables the complex adaptive functionality of people engaged in work. Engineering, based on physics, chemistry and mathematics, provides for the standardized functionality of machines and machine-like processes. The purpose for humaneering and engineering is the same—operations effectiveness and productivity—yet the principles and methods are as different as human and physical nature.
In today's economy, the predominance of work that is dependent on human functionality has increased the importance to operations managers of having a humaneering technology in order to maximize the performance and productivity of people-dependent work. Furthermore, humaneered work systems are easier to manage and sustain, because worker motivation and satisfaction are supported naturally.
