Table 1.
Extant definitions of human performance from the military and other related domains.
| Citation | Definition | Context |
|---|---|---|
| Brimley et al. (2013) | … a person’s physical, cognitive and social–emotional functions. | Military |
| Travis and Brown (2023) | … the successful completion of a specified task within an available performance capacity that meets or exceeds the mission demands | Military |
| Naval Air Warfare Center (2021) | … the range of perceptions, decisions, and actions that an individual or team carries out in the context of performing a task. | Military |
| Britt et al. (2006) | …how military personnel think, react, and behave in military operations. | Military |
| Giles et al. (2023) | …the extent to which individuals dynamically think, react, and behave relative to an established standard during training and operations. | Military |
| EUROCONTROL/FAA Action Plan 15 Safety (2010) | … the performance of jobs, tasks, and activities by operational personnel – individually and together. | Air traffic control |
| Rothwell et al. (2012) | … outcomes, results, and accomplishments achieved by a person, group, or organization. | Organizational behavior |
| Fowler et al. (2019) | … the act of performing and achieving a task, as distinct from performance shaping factors such as fatigue, task load, health or wellbeing, that can impact the task performance. | Organizational behavior |
| Arra et al. (2023) | … a worker’s capacity to meet the demands of a task. | Organizational behavior |
| Quante et al. (2021) | … the potential of a person to successfully perform a task. | Automation and Robotics |
| Khripunov (2023) | … actual behavior and the results of people’s actions, as opposed to an ideal or abstract view of what they are supposed to do. | Human factors and ergonomics |
| Parush (2015) | … perceptual, cognitive, emotional, and physical processes and behaviors. | Human factors and ergonomics |
| Gawron (2000) | … the accomplishment of a task by a human operator. | Human factors and ergonomics |
| Reason (1990) | … behavior plus results (P = B + R). | Human factors and ergonomics |
| Hockey (1997) | … the effectiveness or skill to accomplish goals through operations associated with human behavior. | Human factors and ergonomics |
| Driskell and Salas (2013) | … people doing things – performing a task, carrying out a procedure, solving a problem, or doing some type of work or activity. | Human factors and ergonomics |