The Social Engagement of Social Science, a Tavistock Anthology, Volume 3 : : The Socio-Ecological 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]; ©1997
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (736 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface --; Historical Overview --; Introduction to Volume III --; The Causal Texture of Organizational Environments --; The Next Thirty Years --; Active Maladaptive Strategies --; The Extended Social Field and Its Informational Structure --; Active Adaptation --; Referent Organizations and the Development of Inter-Organizational Domains --; Hyperturbulence and the Emergence of Type V Environments --; The Vortical Environment --; Educational Paradigms --; Adaptive Systems for Our Future Governance --; Methodological Premises of Social Forecasting --; A Graph Theoretic Approach to the Investigation of System-Environment Relationships --; Causal Path Analysis --; Project Australia --; Co-Genetic Logic --; On Various Approaches to the Study of Organizations --; The Search Conference --; Systems, Messes and Interactive Planning --; Connective Planning --; Planning for Real but Different Worlds --; Policy --; The Environment and System Response Capability --; Industrial Democracy and Regional Decentralization --; Quality of Working Life and Community Development --; On Participative Democracy --; Design and Change in Ship Organization --; A Position Statement on International Development --; Some Observations on Workplace Reform --; Paradigms for Societal Transition --; Epilogue --; Afterword --; Contributors --; Subject Index --; Name Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781512819069; 9783110442526
• DOI: 10.9783/9781512819069
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Eric Trist, Beulah Trist, Hugh Murray.

World War II brought together a group of psychiatrists and clinical and social psychologists in the British Army who developed a number of radical, action-oriented organizational innovations in social psychiatry. They became known as the "Tavistock Group," since the core members had been at the pre-war Tavistock Clinic. At the post-war Tavistock Institute of Human Relations, they developed a pioneering mode of relating theory and practice, called in these volumes "The Social Engagement of Social Science." Previous volumes presented two of three interdependent perspectives: the socio-psychological (Volume I, 1990) and the socio-technical (Volume II, 1993). The latest volume, on the socio-ecological perspective, completes the set.The socio-ecological perspective is concerned with the coevolution of systems and their environments. It considers the broader environment which shapes not only the task environments of socio-technical organizations but the institutional and cultural environment that confronts the individual.Volume III focuses on nonhierarchical forms of organization facilitating inter-organizational relations in complex and rapidly changing environments. This perspective provides a guide to institution building for the future.