Socio-Technical Perspectives on Smart Working: Creating Meaningful and Sustainable Systems
Information Systems Frontiers volume 22, pages281–298(2020)
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10796-019-09921-1
Podcast:
Episode 34 covers an important article by Eric Trist and Ken Bamforth, “Some Social and Psychological Consequences of the Longwall Method of Coal-Getting,” published in the journal Human Relations in 1951. Eric Trist was a British social scientist best known for his contributions to the field of organization development and one of the founders of the Tavistock Institute. Ken Bamforth was a miner and industrial fellow of the Tavistock Institute.
34: Sociotechnical Systems – Trist and Bamforth – Talking About Organizations Podcast
Summary of the classic Trist and Bamforth piece: