Citation

Meister D. Int. J. Ind. Ergonomics 1992; 10(3): 257-260.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1992, Elsevier Publishing)

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Abstract

What we need then is a concerted effort by the discipline as a whole to examine our practices, recognize our defects, and systematically attempt to eliminate these. We are naturally reluctant to be nay-sayers, to seem to be negative about ourselves. I do not wish to give the impression that there are no good things going for us, because there are; but I want us to try to work toward goals that may represent more than we can accomplish, but which, in the process of working toward them, will enable us to be more effective than we are presently. This may be irrational idealism - I am sure that some readers think so - but it is irrational idealism in a supremely good cause; and even if we fail in the attempt to reach these goals, the attempt itself honors those who have tried.