Sociotechnical systems | Wikipedia audio article

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00:01:34 1 Overview
00:03:46 2 Principles
00:05:04 2.1 Responsible autonomy
00:07:34 2.2 Adaptability
00:11:24 2.3 Whole tasks
00:13:16 2.4 Meaningfulness of tasks
00:14:43 3 Topics
00:14:52 3.1 Sociotechnical system
00:15:54 3.2 Autonomous work teams
00:16:25 3.3 Job enrichment
00:16:56 3.4 Job enlargement
00:17:29 3.5 Job rotation
00:18:11 3.6 Motivation
00:19:01 3.7 Process improvement
00:19:28 3.8 Task analysis
00:20:10 3.9 Job design
00:20:40 3.10 Deliberations
00:21:22 4 See also



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Sociotechnical systems (STS) in organizational development is an approach to complex organizational work design that recognizes the interaction between people and technology in workplaces. The term also refers to the interaction between society's complex infrastructures and human behaviour. In this sense, society itself, and most of its substructures, are complex sociotechnical systems. The term sociotechnical systems was coined by Eric Trist, Ken Bamforth and Fred Emery, in the World War II era, based on their work with workers in English coal mines at the Tavistock Institute in London.Sociotechnical systems pertains to theory regarding the social aspects of people and society and technical aspects of organizational structure and processes. Here, technical does not necessarily imply material technology. The focus is on procedures and related knowledge, i.e. it refers to the ancient Greek term techne. "Technical" is a term used to refer to structure and a broader sense of technicalities. Sociotechnical refers to the interrelatedness of social and technical aspects of an organization or the society as a whole. Sociotechnical theory therefore is about joint optimization, with a shared emphasis on achievement of both excellence in technical performance and quality in people's work lives. Sociotechnical theory, as distinct from sociotechnical systems, proposes a number of different ways of achieving joint optimisation. They are usually based on designing different kinds of organisation, ones in which the relationships between socio and technical elements lead to the emergence of productivity and wellbeing.