Socio-Technical-Systems, Sustainable Work, Open Systems Theory 0
I’ve received news about an Aalto University course on ”Socio-Technical Systems Paradigm: History and Further Developments” [see pdf], led by Frans M. van Eijnatten (Eindhoven University of Technology) and Mari Kira (Academy Research Fellow at sustain.tkk.fi), scheduled for September 27-28 in Espoo, Finland.
The course is associated with the Sustain Research Program that “focuses on creating sustainable work in contemporary working life”. I also noticed a book on Creating sustainable work systems: developing social sustainability, edited by Peter Docherty, Mari Kira and Abraham B. Shani (Taylor & Francis 2008) [preview at Google Books].
We would seem to be at the leading edge of research with this topic. Since I’m active in the systems community, I was intrigued by a reference to an article in 2008 article in Systems Research and Behavioral Science by Mari Kira, and Frans M. van Eijnatten, “Socially sustainable work organizations: A chaordic systems approach”.
