Behavior, Technology, and Organizational Development: Eric Trist and the Tavistock Institute
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| Rating | : | 4.84 (550 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1412855675 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 352 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-06-02 |
| Language | : | English |
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Long deserved biography on innovative Social Scientist Eric Trist Thomas N. Gilmore In his book about radical thinkers who reinvented corporate management, Art Kleiner had a chapter on Eric Trist’s articulating a better way of managing the workplace against the prevailing orthodoxy of hierarchy and Taylorism. At long last, there is now a biography, Behavior, Technology, and
Richard Trahair conducted research and taught social psychology at the University of Melbourne and La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia. He has published widely on the study of human problems in industry and health.
He was a founding member of the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations in London and spent many years in United States academia. He also describes Trist’s work to improve the United Kingdom’s Army’s method of selecting men for officer training in wartime, and his role in the establishment of the Civil Resettlement Units in England.In place of the traditional technology-driven bureaucracy of industry, Trist recommended that social science researchers help reorganize industries on socio-technical lines. Trist provided convincing evidence that organizations dominated by traditional attitudes were inefficient and unsatisfactory. Eric Trist was a psychologist, social scientist, and a leading figure in the field of organizational development. This book delves into Trist’s life to examine the evolution of his work and how he applied social science theory, knowledge, and methods to the organization of working life and its management. He
A useful and interesting biographical treatment of Trist.”—G. The QWL approach met with resistance from British companies' management and unions because it disrupted existing work methods dating back to the Industrial Revolution. “Trist (1909–93) enhanced psychology and organizational development through his work with colleagues at the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations, which he cofounded. As part of the WW II effort for England, Trist discovered inefficiencies in the mechanized administration of the British army; he understood that repatriation of soldiers who had been prisoners of war required a form of psychiatry that dealt with the shame and lack of social attachment of the prisoners’ postwar experiences. Kaupins, Choice. E. In later years, Trist enhanced the development of socio-technical