Literature research was conducted in the areas of current works relating to work environment, product innovation, employee motivation, fear, and excitement. Direct research for the project consisted of Qualitative Research, particularly qualitative inter viewing and the analysis of archival texts.
Scenario planning is used to present the key themes arising from the qualitative research analysis.
The key themes found in this study are as follows. Fear is directly induced. Fear is consciously recognized and internalized by the engineer. The engineer consciously chooses to reduce fear, tension, and anxiety by going along with the status quo, not challenging, not risking, and not making innovations. By consciously choosing to reduce fear by reducing their performance, the engineer also perpetuates the cycle of fear.