Socio-technical systems
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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 socio-technical system 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.
[edit] Some topics in STS
- job design
- task analysis
- job enrichment
- job enlargement
- job rotation
- motivation
- satisfaction
- autonomy
- process improvement
- self-managing teams
The term sociotechnical systems was coined by Eric Trist and Fred Emery, consultants at the Tavistock Institute in London.
