Sociotechnical Principles of Humanization of Organizational Relations

Principles of Organizational Structure

At its most basic, organizational structure is the configuration of the hierarchical levels and specialized units and positions within an organization, and the formal rules governing these arrangements (Rainey, 1997, p. 170). Other writers on organizations argue that performance evaluation and reward systems are additional key elements of organizational structure and must be designed carefully ...

Approaching Information Infrastructure as an Ecology of Ubiquitous Sociotechnical Relations

In this paper, we seek to understand the ecology of ubiquitous sociotechnical relations involved in the development and use of information and communication technologies. We draw on some examples from an empirical case study on the development and use of a regional healthcare information technology network to illustrate our conceptualization of this information infrastructure as an ecology. We ...

Beyond the organizational 'container': Conceptualizing 21st century sociotechnical work

Article history: Received 26 March 2014 Received in revised form 9 October 2014 Accepted 10 October 2014 Available online xxxx The sociotechnical systems (STS) approach provides a framework that is well suited to grappling with many issues of work in organizations. By conceiving of work systems as mutually-shaping social and technological systems, the STS approach has provided decades of resear...

SnapShot: Organizational Principles of the Postsynaptic Proteome

Organizational Principles of Cerebellar Neuronal Circuitry.

We review our recent studies of cerebellar neuronal organization, emphasizing that consideration of organizational features of cerebellar circuitry represents a necessary step toward the understanding of how the cerebellum does what it does, in terms of both its internal information processing and its interaction with other motor structures.