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The Social Engagement of Social Science, a Tavistock Anthology, Volume 3 : The Socio-Ecological Perspective / Eric Trist, Beulah Trist, Hugh Murray.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2016]Copyright date: ©1997Description: 1 online resource (736 p.)Content type:
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  • 9780812281941
  • 9781512819069
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 302
LOC classification:
  • HM251
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  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Historical Overview -- Introduction to Volume III -- The Causal Texture of Organizational Environments -- The Next Thirty Years -- Active Maladaptive Strategies -- The Extended Social Field and Its Informational Structure -- Active Adaptation -- Referent Organizations and the Development of Inter-Organizational Domains -- Hyperturbulence and the Emergence of Type V Environments -- The Vortical Environment -- Educational Paradigms -- Adaptive Systems for Our Future Governance -- Methodological Premises of Social Forecasting -- A Graph Theoretic Approach to the Investigation of System-Environment Relationships -- Causal Path Analysis -- Project Australia -- Co-Genetic Logic -- On Various Approaches to the Study of Organizations -- The Search Conference -- Systems, Messes and Interactive Planning -- Connective Planning -- Planning for Real but Different Worlds -- Policy -- The Environment and System Response Capability -- Industrial Democracy and Regional Decentralization -- Quality of Working Life and Community Development -- On Participative Democracy -- Design and Change in Ship Organization -- A Position Statement on International Development -- Some Observations on Workplace Reform -- Paradigms for Societal Transition -- Epilogue -- Afterword -- Contributors -- Subject Index -- Name Index
Summary: World War II brought together a group of psychiatrists and clinical and social psychologists in the British Army who developed a number of radical, action-oriented organizational innovations in social psychiatry. They became known as the "Tavistock Group," since the core members had been at the pre-war Tavistock Clinic. At the post-war Tavistock Institute of Human Relations, they developed a pioneering mode of relating theory and practice, called in these volumes "The Social Engagement of Social Science." Previous volumes presented two of three interdependent perspectives: the socio-psychological (Volume I, 1990) and the socio-technical (Volume II, 1993). The latest volume, on the socio-ecological perspective, completes the set.The socio-ecological perspective is concerned with the coevolution of systems and their environments. It considers the broader environment which shapes not only the task environments of socio-technical organizations but the institutional and cultural environment that confronts the individual.Volume III focuses on nonhierarchical forms of organization facilitating inter-organizational relations in complex and rapidly changing environments. This perspective provides a guide to institution building for the future.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Historical Overview -- Introduction to Volume III -- The Causal Texture of Organizational Environments -- The Next Thirty Years -- Active Maladaptive Strategies -- The Extended Social Field and Its Informational Structure -- Active Adaptation -- Referent Organizations and the Development of Inter-Organizational Domains -- Hyperturbulence and the Emergence of Type V Environments -- The Vortical Environment -- Educational Paradigms -- Adaptive Systems for Our Future Governance -- Methodological Premises of Social Forecasting -- A Graph Theoretic Approach to the Investigation of System-Environment Relationships -- Causal Path Analysis -- Project Australia -- Co-Genetic Logic -- On Various Approaches to the Study of Organizations -- The Search Conference -- Systems, Messes and Interactive Planning -- Connective Planning -- Planning for Real but Different Worlds -- Policy -- The Environment and System Response Capability -- Industrial Democracy and Regional Decentralization -- Quality of Working Life and Community Development -- On Participative Democracy -- Design and Change in Ship Organization -- A Position Statement on International Development -- Some Observations on Workplace Reform -- Paradigms for Societal Transition -- Epilogue -- Afterword -- Contributors -- Subject Index -- Name Index

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World War II brought together a group of psychiatrists and clinical and social psychologists in the British Army who developed a number of radical, action-oriented organizational innovations in social psychiatry. They became known as the "Tavistock Group," since the core members had been at the pre-war Tavistock Clinic. At the post-war Tavistock Institute of Human Relations, they developed a pioneering mode of relating theory and practice, called in these volumes "The Social Engagement of Social Science." Previous volumes presented two of three interdependent perspectives: the socio-psychological (Volume I, 1990) and the socio-technical (Volume II, 1993). The latest volume, on the socio-ecological perspective, completes the set.The socio-ecological perspective is concerned with the coevolution of systems and their environments. It considers the broader environment which shapes not only the task environments of socio-technical organizations but the institutional and cultural environment that confronts the individual.Volume III focuses on nonhierarchical forms of organization facilitating inter-organizational relations in complex and rapidly changing environments. This perspective provides a guide to institution building for the future.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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