This series of volumes reviews the state of the art in several areas of human performance research. These areas are human capability assessment, information processing and decision making, and job stress. It was recognized that these have been active research areas, but work in these areas has not previously been linked directly to national concerns about productivity. The focus is on implications for improving productivity and for recommending research in these areas that should have impact on productivity. It is felt that these volumes represent authoritative statements by leading scholars in their respective fields, regarding the state of the art in these areas of human performance. The individual chapters present the implications of research for productivity enhancement and the directions of needed human performance research likely to impact on productivity.

Introduction / Edwin A. Fleishman -- Stress and stressors, commonplace and otherwise / Earl A. Alluisi -- Workload, task, and situational factors as modifiers of complex human performance / W. Dean Chiles -- Psychophysiological correlates of stress and human performance / Walter L. Wilkins -- Organismic factors and individual differences in human performance and productivity / Glynn D. Coates and Raymond H. Kirby -- Subjective correlates of stress and human performance / Robert Hogan and Joyce C. Hogan -- Temporal factors in human performance and productivity / Earl A. Alluisi and Ben B. Morgan, Jr.