SOCIOTECHNICAL SYSTEMS

Team Building Glossary

Team Building — Sociotechnical Systems

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Sociotechnical Systems are an approach to job design that involves and integrates the technical systems (tools) and people systems for optimum effectiveness; concerns for production / task and for people and their welfare and development are balanced.
     Sociotechnical Systems are based on the concept that work could be more fulfilling and productive if responsibility for complete pieces or processes could be allocated to intact work groups.
     Sociotechnical Systems represented a reaction to and a breach with scientific management. The Sociotechnical Systems movement synthesised the human (social) and technical (tools) systems. In doing so, it put work back into the hands of the worker.


Other topics in our resources on Team Building related to Sociotechnical Systems include: 
 
  • High Performance Teams
  • Self-directed Teams (SDT)
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  • Self-managing Team
  • The Paradox of Self Management
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  • Peritus Approach
  • Peritus Team

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