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.

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, founders of the Tavistock Institute in London.

See also

• List of management topics
• human factors

External links

• Modelling Complex Socio-Technical Systems using Morphological Analysis From the Swedish Morphological Society