Download or read book Sociotechnical Systems written by Kenyon B. De Greene and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sociotechnical Systems Factors in Analysis Design and Management written by Kenyon B. De Greene and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Systems theories, concepts, dynamics, and problems; Systems methodology; Types of sociotechnical systems with examination of representative cases; Is anybody listening? The supreme challenge.
Download or read book Sociotechnical Systems written by William A. Pasmore and published by University Associates Incorporated. This book was released on 1978 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Monographic compilation of essays on the use of sociotechnical job design techniques in simultaneous quality of working life and organization development - presents theoretical and practical guidelines for understanding and applying the concepts of sociotechnical systems to job satisfaction, job rotation, job enlargement, work organization, etc. Diagrams, references and statistical tables.
Download or read book Designing Healthcare That Works written by Mark Ackerman and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2017-11-17 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Designing Healthcare That Works: A Sociotechnical Approach takes up the pragmatic, messy problems of designing and implementing sociotechnical solutions which integrate organizational and technical systems for the benefit of human health. The book helps practitioners apply principles of sociotechnical design in healthcare and consider the adoption of new theories of change. As practitioners need new processes and tools to create a more systematic alignment between technical mechanisms and social structures in healthcare, the book helps readers recognize the requirements of this alignment. The systematic understanding developed within the book’s case studies includes new ways of designing and adopting sociotechnical systems in healthcare. For example, helping practitioners examine the role of exogenous factors, like CMS Systems in the U.S. Or, more globally, helping practitioners consider systems external to the boundaries drawn around a particular healthcare IT system is one key to understand the design challenge. Written by scholars in the realm of sociotechnical systems research, the book is a valuable source for medical informatics professionals, software designers and any healthcare providers who are interested in making changes in the design of the systems. Encompasses case studies focusing on specific projects and covering an entire lifecycle of sociotechnical design in healthcare Provides an in-depth view from established scholars in the realm of sociotechnical systems research and related domains Brings a systematic understanding that includes ways of designing and adopting sociotechnical systems in healthcare
Download or read book Analytical Planning written by Thomas L. Saaty and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2014-05-17 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Analytical Planning: The Organization of Systems deals with systems and planning and suggests a methodological tool for integrating the two. This book presents the basic ideas behind complexity, systems, hierarchies, and prioritization and describes planning as a unique form of decision making with illustrations of some prominent philosophical and methodological approaches. It highlights some shortcomings of traditional approaches to planning and shows how these can be addressed by the systems approach. This monograph consists of seven chapters and opens with a discussion on the nature of complexity and describes an approach that facilitates the use of creativity and experience to structure complex problems. The next chapter explains the rationale for systems thinking and how reductionism works. The Analytic Hierarchy Process is then considered, along with its relationship to some of the properties of systems. The remaining chapters focus on ways of thinking about planning and philosophies of planning; strategic planning; and the applicability of the Analytic Hierarchy Process to benefit-cost analysis and resource allocation. This book is intended for managers, decision makers, and planners, as well as researchers and practitioners in applied mathematics and computer science.
Download or read book Safety Causation Analysis in Sociotechnical Systems written by Esmaeil Zarei and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2024 with total page 537 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Management Information Systems written by Robert D Galliers and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-07-28 with total page 746 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Handbook provides critical, interdisciplinary contributions from leading international academics on the theory and methodology, practical applications, and broader context of Management Information Systems, as well as offering potential avenues for future research
Download or read book The University written by Kenyon B. De Greene and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2008-04-26 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The twenty-first century is lurching chaotically into a perilous and uncertain future. Once vibrant and creative, the University—now large, anachronistic, and bureaucratic—has all but exhausted its capabilities to respond to challenges and threats from within and without. Years of hypocrisy and power politics have taken their toll on the would-be “second Caltech.” Now, everything is going wrong. A cynical attempt to fire a popular young teacher, Alistair Higham, explodes as students, parents, alumni, and the professors’ professional organization come to the aid of the teacher. Investigation by the professional organization brings other injustices to light. It seems likely that the University will be censored and will lose its accreditation. The neighborhood around the University rises in protest over the latter’s ham-handed attempt to have a block of lower-middle-class houses razed to make room for a parking lot. Tight connections with industry make the University a partner in dumping toxic wastes in poor Mexican American neighborhoods and in mining in mountain wildernesses. Eventually, a crafty liaison with the oil industry comes to a head as the University is revealed to be an indirect participant in genocide in Quetzalgalpa, a remote and war-ravaged Central American country
Download or read book Performance by Design written by James Chapman Taylor and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume offers an exploration of successful organizational change -- through the use of a purposeful, product-oriented vision shared by all members. It stresses the four pillars of sociotechnical methodology -- systems, power, product, and purpose. For business managers, sociologists, and psychologists.
Download or read book The Wiley Blackwell Handbook of the Psychology of Leadership Change and Organizational Development written by H. Skipton Leonard and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2016-09-06 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A state-of-the-art reference, drawing on key contemporary research to provide an in-depth, international, and competencies-based approach to the psychology of leadership, change and OD Puts cutting-edge evidence at the fingertips of organizational psychology practitioners who need it most, but who do not always have the time or resources to keep up with scholarly research Thematic chapters cover leadership and employee well-being, organizational creativity and innovation, positive psychology and Appreciative Inquiry, and leadership-culture fit Contributors include David Cooperrider, Manfred Kets de Vries, Emma Donaldson-Feilder, Staale Einarsen, David Day, Beverley Alimo-Metcalfe, Michael Chaskalson and Bernard Burnes
Download or read book Institutional Analysis and Praxis written by Tara Natarajan and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2009-09-03 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There has never been a better time for the social fabric matrix. As this book is being published, the idea that unregulated market capitalism leads to the best of all possible worlds has been thoroughly discredited. A series of economic and social problems have come to the forefront of national discussion and policy debates. There is now widespread acceptance that human activity, particularly the consu- tion of nonrenewable energy resources, has contributed to global warming. The lack of oversight of the financial industry encouraged reckless practices that endangered the stability of the entire financial system, prompting bailout efforts based on the fragile interdependence of the financial and economic systems. The shortcomings of our health care system are increasingly evident, including the growing number of uninsured citizens, the difficulties for businesses in offering health insurance, and the effects of health and health care on the ability of individuals and families to maintain a decent standard of living. Perhaps the best illustration of a complex system that cries out for coordinated policy-making is in the critical area of energy, where public and private decisions on energy policy not only have direct effects on consumer costs, but also have effects on global warming, local ecosystems, int- national relations, the health of our citizens, and the sustainability of companies and communities. In short, there is growing recognition of the interdependence of the economic system with the environment and the broader institutions of society.
Download or read book A Systems Based Approach to Policymaking written by Kenyon B. de Greene and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is based on a number of systems concepts, of which the following are emphasized here: oThe interacting systems of society and the environment are dynamic and evolution ary oEvolution of these systems carries them through stages of differential stability and instability, continuity and discontinuity oAssociated with evolution and instability is structural change that is essentially irre versible oThe present is a stage of world transformation that may not have been equaled for decades or even centuries oPolicies and decisions must match the times, in the present case the stage of world transformation The time 11:59:59 PM, approximately, on December 31, 2000 has an impor tant symbolic meaning. It marks the end of a minute, the end of an hour, the end of a day, the end of a year, the end of a decade, the end of a century, and the end of a millennium. The time and date provide a convenient yardstick against which we can evaluate the evolution of our thinking and the adequacy of our assumptions, mental models, paradigms, and policies. Will the beginning tum out to be appropriately dif ferent from the end? We hope that this book is helpful in such evaluation. This is a new-paradigm book, which both presents and advances the new way of thinking about the systems of science, technology, society, economics, politics, and the environment, and actively calls for the replacement of the worn out cognitive/sociotechnical paradigm.
Download or read book Continuities in Sociological Human Ecology written by Michael Micklin and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-11-11 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The completion of this volume would not have been possible without the generous and dedicated help of numerous people. The book had its genesis in a conference held at Cornell University in the fall of 1990 that was organized by Dudley Poston, Paul Eberts, and Michael Hannan, all professors at the time at Cornell. With the very generous financial assistance of David Call, then the dean of Cornell's College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Poston, Eberts, and Hannan put together a two-day conference oflectures and papers by human ecologists from Cornell University and elsewhere. The conference focused on sociological human ecology and celebrated the fortieth anniversary of the publication of Amos Hawley's Human Ecology (Ronald Press 1950). Professor Hawley was the keynote speaker at the conference. Many of the authors of the chapters in this volume presented earlier versions at the Cornell conference in 1990. Cornell's Departments of Rural Sociology and Sociology also contrib uted financial assistance; however, without Dean Call's very generous support, the conference would not have been possible. A few months after the conference, Poston and Michael Micklin discussed the possibility of asking the various authors of the Cornell conference papers to revise them for publication in a volume on sociological human ecology. Many opted to do so, but others did not because of time and other kinds of commitments and constraints.
Download or read book Human Factors in Organizational Design and Management written by Hal W. Hendrick and published by North Holland. This book was released on 1984 with total page 654 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comprises papers on various aspects of the relationship between workers and their work environment, and especially on human-machine interaction.
Download or read book Chaos Theory in the Social Sciences written by L. Douglas Kiel and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2009-11-10 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chaos Theory in the Social Sciences: Foundations and Applications offers the most recent thinking in applying the chaos paradigm to the social sciences. The book explores the methodological techniques--and their difficulties--for determining whether chaotic processes may in fact exist in a particular instance and examines implications of chaos theory when applied specifically to political science, economics, and sociology. The contributors to the book show that no single technique can be used to diagnose and describe all chaotic processes and identify the strengths and limitations of a variety of approaches. The essays in this volume consider the application of chaos theory to such diverse phenomena as public opinion, the behavior of states in the international arena, the development of rational economic expectations, and long waves. Contributors include Brian J. L. Berry, Thad Brown, Kenyon B. DeGreene, Dimitrios Dendrinos, Euel Elliott, David Harvey, L. Ted Jaditz, Douglas Kiel, Heja Kim, Michael McBurnett, Michael Reed, Diana Richards, J. Barkley Rosser, Jr., and Alvin M. Saperstein. L. Douglas Kiel and Euel W. Elliott are both Associate Professors of Government, Politics, and Political Economy, University of Texas at Dallas.
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Download or read book Human Factors in Organizational Design and Management V written by Ogden Brown and published by North Holland. This book was released on 1996 with total page 700 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inhaltsübersicht: Preface, Acknowledgements, 1. Product design and development, 2. Individual differences and task analysis: matching persons to the job, 3. Information technology and communication, 4. Participation, 5. Occupational well being, health, and safety, 6. Macroergonomics, 7. Cultural perspectives, 8. Evolution and development of IEA federated societies, 9. Late paper.
