The Social Engagement of Social Science, a Tavistock Anthology, Volume 2 : : The Socio-Technical Perspective / / Eric Trist, Beulah Trist, Hugh Murray.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn eBook Package Archive 1898-1999 (pre Pub)
• HerausgeberIn: Murray, Hugh,; Trist, Beulah,; Trist, Eric,
• Place / Publishing House: Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2016]; ©1993
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (640 p.)

World War II brought together a group of psychiatrists and clinical and social psychologists in the British Army where they developed radical, action-oriented innovations in social psychiatry. They became known as the "Tavistock Group" since the core members had been at the pre-war Tavistock Clinic. They created the post-war Tavistock Institute of Human Relations and expanded on their wartime achievements by pioneering a new mode of relating theory and practice, called in these volumes, "The Social Engagement of Social Science."There are three perspectives: the socio-psychological, the socio-technical, and the socio-ecological. These perspectives are interdependent, yet each has its own focus and is represented in a separate volume.The Institute's dynamic social science approach to industrial problems, presented in this second volume, began with Eric Trist's coal-mining program for the development of more productive and personally satisfying self-regulating forms of work organization. The whole "Quality of Life" movement owes its theoretical and empirical basis to this pathfinding endeavor.Volume I, The Socio-Psychological Perspective, extended the object-relations approach in psychoanalysis to group, organizational, and wider social life. This extension is related to field theory, the personality/culture approach, and open systems theory. Action-oriented papers deal with key ideas in social psychiatry, varieties of group process, new paths in family studies, the dynamics of organizational change, and the unconscious in culture and society.Volume III will focus on non-hierarchical forms of organization facilitating inter-organizational relations in complex and rapidly changing environments-the socio-ecological perspective. This perspective is offered as a guide to institution building for the future.

Table of Contents

The Social Engagement of Social Science, Volume 2 -- Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Historical Overview -- Volume II. The Socio-Technical Perspective -- Introduction to Volume II -- Shaping a New Field -- The Stress of Isolated Dependence -- Alternative Work Organizations -- Productivity and Social Organization -- The Ahmedabad Experiment Revisited -- Characteristics of Socio-Technical Systems -- Conceptual Developments -- Designing Socio-Technical Systems for Greenfield Sites -- The Assembly Line -- The Second Design Principle -- Socio-Technical Foundations for a New Social Order? -- The Historical Validity of the Norwegian Industrial Democracy Project -- Toward a New Philosophy of Management -- Alternatives to Hierarchies -- Designing with Minimal Critical Specifications -- The Coming Crisis for Production Management -- Principles of Socio-Technical Design -- Socio-Technical Ideas at the End of the '70s -- QWL and the '80s -- Associated Studies -- Organizational Choice and the New Technology -- On the Collaboration Between Social Scientists and Engineers -- Technology, Territory and Time -- Strategic Projects -- A Learning Organization in Practice -- Action Research in an American Underground Coal Mine -- The Limits of Laissez-Faire as a Socio-Technical Change Strategy -- Socio-Technical Projects in the Canadian Federal Public Service -- The Norskhydro Fertilizer Plant -- Visual Display Technology, Worker Disablement and Work Organization -- A New Type of Labor-Management Contract Involving the Quality of Working Life -- Collaborative Action Research -- Socio-Technical Unit Operations Analysis -- The Nine-Step Model -- A Socio-Technical Critique of Scientific Management -- The Participative Design Workshop -- Legislating for Quality of Work Life -- Socio-Technical Action Simulations for Engaging with Engineering Designers -- Work Improvement and Organizational Democracy -- Nonroutine Office Work -- Pava's Extension of Socio-Technical Theory to Advanced Information Technologies -- A Brief Introduction to the Emerys' "Search Conference" -- Contributors -- Subject Index -- Name Index -- Backmatter