The Economics of Human Systems Integration: Valuation of Investments in Peoples Training and Education, Safety and Health, and Work Productivity (Hardcover)

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 change—starting with organizational leadership—is 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, maintenance, and sustainment of complex systems.

The set of thought leaders recruited as contributors to this volume collectively provides a compelling set of data and principles for assessing the economic value of investing in people, not just in general but in specific investment situations. The early chapters provide the contexts for HSI and investment analysis, illustrating the enormous difference context makes in how issues are best framed and analyzed. A host of practical methods and tools for investment valuation are then presented. Provided are:

• A variety of real-world applications of economic analysis ranging from military acquisition and automotive investment to healthcare and high-tech investments in general, in both the U.S. and abroad

• A range of economics-based methods and tools for cost analysis, cost-benefit analysis, and investment analysis, as well as sources of data for performing such analyses

• Differing perspectives on economic decision-making, including a range of private sector points of view, as well as government and regulatory perspectives

In addition, five real-world case studies illustrate how such valuations have been done and their major impacts on investment decisions. HSI professionals, systems engineers, and finance professionals who address investment analysis will appreciate the wide range of methods and real-life applications; senior undergraduates and masters-level graduate students will find this to be an excellent textbook that provides theory and supports practice.

解決人類系統整合問題和權衡的基本經濟原則、方法和工具
人類系統整合（HSI）是一門新興且基本的整合學科，旨在幫助企業和工程文化更加以人為中心的系統發展。將人類的能力、限制和偏好納入工程系統的考慮中，可以獲得重要的成本和性能優勢，否則將無法實現。然而，為了使這門新學科發揮作用，通常需要進行一種文化變革，從組織領導層開始。

《人類系統整合的經濟學》解釋了評估人們在培訓和教育、安全和健康以及工作生產力方面的投資價值所面臨的困難。它概述了經濟學如何應對這些困難，重點關注與複雜系統的設計、開發、生產、運營、維護和持續性相關的人類問題。

本書的撰寫者是一群思想領袖，共同提供了一套令人信服的數據和原則，用於評估投資於人的經濟價值，不僅僅是一般情況下，還包括特定的投資情況。早期章節提供了HSI和投資分析的背景，說明了背景對於問題的最佳框架和分析方法的巨大影響。然後介紹了一系列實用的投資評估方法和工具，包括：

- 各種實際應用的經濟分析，從軍事採購和汽車投資到醫療保健和高科技投資，涵蓋美國和國外的案例。
- 基於經濟學的成本分析、成本效益分析和投資分析方法和工具，以及執行此類分析的數據來源。
- 對經濟決策的不同觀點，包括各種私營部門觀點，以及政府和監管機構的觀點。

此外，還提供了五個實際案例研究，說明了這些評估是如何進行的以及對投資決策的主要影響。HSI專業人士、系統工程師和財務專業人士將欣賞到這些方法和實際應用的廣泛範例；高年級本科生和碩士研究生將發現這是一本理論與實踐相結合的優秀教材。