The Social Engagement of Social Science, a Tavistock Anthology, Volume 2 : : The Socio-Technical Perspective /

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

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 Tavisto...

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

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