Articles by Peter G. Furst

To make any permanent significant change to companies’ organizational systems, practices, or procedures, one has to modify the culture.

Successful execution of organizational strategy hinges on the effectiveness of the supervisor's ability to lead workers to enthusiastically engage in their assigned tasks.

Improvement initiatives in safety face challenges due to structural issues in the administration of operations, management and practices.

Safety is an outcome of an activity engaged in by a person performing their daily work or task. Let’s dispute some myths.

The traditional approaches to managing human performance may not be effective. Here’s a new approach to performance evaluation.

Traditionally, performance has been managed by setting goals for employees to achieve or accomplish. Here’s a new perspective.

Why are workers getting hurt in spite of safety standards, programs, policies, procedures, training, and possibly everyone’s best efforts?

A person’s perception of risk or their tolerance of it, will in one way or another influence their decision-making and impact their safety.

To manage effectively, information that tells management in real time how well the organizational and operational systems are performing in order is crucial.

People can make relatively logical assessment of situations and information, but we have to be careful of possible biases in our interaction with others.