SOCIO-TECHNICAL SYSTEMS

In organizational development, 'socio-technical systems' (or STS) 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 sub-structures, are complex socio-technical systems.
The term sociotechnical systems was coined in the 1960s by Eric Trist and Fred Emery, who were working as consultants at the Tavistock Institute in London.

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Some topics

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Some topics

Mayor topics in social-technical systems are:

★ job design

★ task analysis

★ job enrichment

★ job enlargement

★ job rotation

★ motivation

★ satisfaction

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★ process improvement

★ self-managing teams

See also

★ List of management topics

★ Human factors

★ Sociotechnical systems theory