The Tavistock Institute as it says its website was founded in 1947. It is an independent non-profit. Dedicated to the study of socio-technical systems, this means something like that addresses design, administration and organization of trade, construction, education, industry, government, etc ... its scope is national and international. It is headquartered in London, at the following address: 30 Tabernade Street, EC2A 4DD. Currently has two publications which he expressed his studies and works are on a monthly basis. The first is called "Human Relations" published by "Plenum Press" and the second release, most recent is "Evaluation" published by Sage Publications. At the same time occasionally publish collections of essays devoted to the socio-technical theories.
Roughly this is the Tavistock Institute or so is more or less as they present on their website. Data are very simple to understand and others less so. That's what we will explain below. In this first post I'll settle for explaining the concept of socio-technical studies and used in today's world. Also a small sketch list of related or similar organizations in the world to denote that these issues are more common today. The theory of socio-technical systems arose in the first place as the worker's interaction with the technologies that worked, and which arose mainly from the industrial revolution, but today the term is understood as the relationship between society and technology, taking this effect reaching consequences beyond the scope of work, cultural and psychological. The term was coined Emery and Trist for the Tavistock Institute in 1960 in a study conducted by the entity in mining.
The institute Tavistock was called by a mining company to conduct a study on productivity. Apparently the new technologies in mining production, far from improving the worse. On this basis the investigation broke. Emery and Trist concluded that the bonds that are created in the mining industry are very strong, they are highly autonomous working groups with freedom of movement and the industrialization of the sector as it is lost. Workers spent to specialize and lost the mobility that existed between them, which made it difficult to replace one of them. Workers develop greater independence losing that mass production system that called for the new era of technology. Thus the Tavistock Institute promoted a new work system, I think this new independence groups and expertise working together and quickly, were rotating between them, increasing production and should have been from the beginning. Created adaptability, human resource optimization to new technologies.
The institute has inspired Sigmund Freud in the unconscious. The institution has always been dedicated to this. The influence of new technologies and the adaptation of society to them. Thus we may speak of mass treatments with the changing world and technology.
Today the Tavistock Institute has been so important that it has led to several entities of the same nature, most of them sponsored by the same institute. SIQSS The Stanford Institute (Instituto Stanford for the Quantitative Study of Society).
MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
The Hudson Institute (Hudson Institute)
Heritage Foundation (The Heritage Foundation)
Center Strategic and International Studies at Georgetown. Corporations
Rand and Mitre.
Intelligence Service of the U.S. Air Force.
With the latter two but sponsorship has been a collaborative relationship.
The Institute of Psycho-relations of the Soviet medical school.
Department of Psycho-Correction of Soviet medical school.
As usual with such organization and many contacts there who speaks of the shadow governments, secret societies, world dictatorships, etc ... Little by little in the future we will post the item getting into trying to see that there are reasons to believe this and to what extent have veracity.
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