The Social Engagement of Social Science

by Trist, Eric L.; Murray, Hugh

• ISBN13: 9780812281934
• ISBN10: 0812281934
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1993-06-01
• Publisher: Univ of Pennsylvania Pr

Table of Contents

Preface	xi
Historical Overview: The Foundation and Development of the Tavistock Institute	1	(34)
Eric Trist
Hugh Murray
Volume II: The Socio-Technical Perspective	35	(26)
Introduction to Volume II	36	(25)
Eric Trist
Shaping a New Field	61	(126)
The Stress of Isolated Dependence: The Filling Shift in the Semi-Mechanized Longwall Three-Shift Mining Cycle	64	(20)
Eric Trist
Ken Bamforth
Alternative Work Organizations: An Exact Comparison	84	(22)
Eric Trist
Gurth Higgin
Hugh Murray
Alec Pollock
Productivity and Social Organization: An Indian Automated Weaving Shed	106	(24)
A.K. Rice
The Ahmedabad Experiment Revisited: Work Organization in an Indian Weaving Shed, 1953-70	130	(27)
Eric J. Miller
Characteristics of Socio-Technical Systems	157	(30)
Fred Emery
Conceptual Developments	187	(164)
Designing Socio-Technical Systems for Greenfield Sites	192	(10)
Fred Emery
The Assembly Line: Its Logic and Our Future	202	(12)
Fred Emery
The Second Design Principle: Participation and the Democratization of Work	214	(20)
Fred Emery
Socio-Technical Foundations for a New Social Order?	234	(20)
Fred Emery
The Historical Validity of the Norwegian Industrial Democracy Project	254	(5)
Fred Emery
Toward a New Philosophy of Management	259	(24)
Paul Hill
Fred Emery
Alternatives to Hierarchies	283	(11)
David (P.G.) Herbst
Designing with Minimal Critical Specifications	294	(9)
David (P.G.) Herbst
The Coming Crisis for Production Management	303	(11)
Louis Davis
Principles of Socio-Technical Design	314	(10)
Albert Cherns
Socio-Technical Ideas at the End of the '70s	324	(14)
Eric Trist
QWL and the '80s	338	(13)
Eric Trist
Associated Studies	351	(54)
Organizational Choice and the New Technology	354	(15)
Gareth Morgan
On the Collaboration Between Social Scientists and Engineers	369	(16)
Lisl Klein
Technology, Territory and Time: The Internal Differentiation of Complex Production Systems	385	(20)
Eric J. Miller
Strategic Projects	405	(150)
A Learning Organization in Practice: M/S Balao	409	(8)
David (P.G.) Herbst
Action Research in an American Underground Coal Mine	417	(34)
Gerald Susman
Eric Trist
The Limits of Laissez-Faire as a Socio-Technical Change Strategy	451	(23)
Eric Trist
Charles Dwyer
Socio-Technical Projects in the Canadian Federal Public Service	474	(18)
Bill Westley
Eric Trist
The Norskhydro Fertilizer Plant	492	(16)
Fred Emery
Einar Thorsrud
Visual Display Technology, Worker Disablement and Work Organization	508	(24)
Trevor A. Williams
A New Type of Labor-Management Contract Involving the Quality of Working Life	532	(23)
Louis Davis
Stu Sullivan
Collaborative Action Research	555	(124)
Socio-Technical Unit Operations Analysis	559	(10)
Fred Emery
The Nine-Step Model	569	(11)
Fred Emery
A Socio-Technical Critique of Scientific Management	580	(19)
Eric Trist
The Participative Design Workshop	599	(15)
Fred Emery
Merrelyn Emery
Legislating for Quality of Work Life	614	(4)
Fred Emery
Socio-Technical Action Simulations for Engaging with Engineering Designers	618	(15)
Hugh Murray
Work Improvement and Organizational Democracy	633	(11)
Eric Trist
Nonroutine Office Work	644	(18)
Calvin Pava
Pava's Extension of Socio-Technical Theory to Advanced Information Technologies	662	(12)
Eric Trist
A Brief Introduction to the Emerys' ``Search Conference''	674	(5)
David Morley
Eric Trist
Contributors	679	(2)
Subject Index	681	(11)
Name Index	692