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socio-technical system is composed of various elements, such as technologies, actors, infrastructures, and networks, as well as the business models connecting the different elements (Bidmon & Knab, 2014) and the relationships among them necessary to fulfill societal functions (Geels, 2005).
One method for creating a unique and balanced workplace is to define policies and strategies for increasing the quality of work life in the organization and reinforce the related processes within the organizations'
socio-technical systems (Chan and Wyatt 2007).
Socio-technical system theory encompasses three general subsystems': technical, social, and environmental (Barko & Pasmore, 1986; Carayon, 2006; Pasmore et al., 1982; Seiler, 1967).
First in this section, we briefly take a look on
socio-technical system literature that includes transitions from one system to another, stability, instability, etc., and then we speak about possible changes in developing countries' social and political conditions in case of reaching nanotechnology-based economy.
The
socio-technical system theorists contend that the needs, which people bring with them to the workplace, have to be identified and ways have to be made to meet those needs through the design of the technology and the work.
With the introduction of the
socio-technical system, CIGGC improved productivity, quality, and lead-time so that in 1995 export sales accounted for 70 percent of the company's business.
What if, instead of flaming organizational change in terms of a "
socio-technical system," organizational change was reframed metaphorically to reflect the organism as a whole?
Uddevalla's innovative new
socio-technical system deserves a closer examination and evaluation.
By understanding this process as a
socio-technical system then the complex interaction between people, technology and the environment in which the systems are deployed are portrayed.