People, Things, and The Engineer

Is it realistic for engineers to expect the same rigid honesty of performance from people that they do from machines? The engineer´s effectiveness in a business society may be directly proportional to his ability to differentiate between human and machine performance. Logic does not always play the leading role in dictating human behavior. The engineer´s growing responsibility to society as a whole demands that he recognize these things. By such action he can markedly improve his own effectiveness.