Characteristics of Socio-Technical Systems

The Role of Acceptance and Job Control in Mental Health, Job Satisfaction, and Work Performance.

“…Theories of occupational health and performance have hypothesized that providing people control over their work serves to improve mental health, job satisfaction, and performance (e.g., the job characteristics model [Hackman & Lawler, 1971], the sociotechnical systems approach [e.g., Emery & Trist, 1960], action theory [Frese & Zapf, 1994;Hacker, Skell, & Straub, 1968], and the demandscontrol model [Karasek, 1979]). In line with these theories of work control and employee health, Terry and Jimmieson (1999, p. 131) noted, in their review of this research literature, that there appears to be "consistent evidence" that high levels of worker control are associated with low levels of stress-related outcomes, including anxiety, psychological distress, burnout, irritability, psychosomatic health complaints, and alcohol consumption.…”

“…It is interesting, however, that results also showed that acceptance interacts with job control to affect these two outcomes, as hypothesized. This work organization characteristic is one of the most important ones that is identified by occupational health and performance theories (e.g., Emery & Trist, 1960;Frese & Zapf, 1994;Hackman & Lawler, 1971;Karasek, 1979) and the research that investigates them (see Terry & Jimmieson, 1999, for a review). Findings from this study suggested that higher levels of acceptance at Time 1 serve to increase the association between higher levels of job control at Time 1 and better mental health and performance at Time 2.…”

A Review of Computer-Based Human Behavior Representations and Their Relation to Military Simulations

“…The metaphors and assumptions of Brahms are drawn from three domains: sociotechnical systems theory described by Emery and Trist (1960), activity theory introduced by Vygotsky in the 1930s and formalized by Leont'ev (1979) and situated cognition theory by Suchman (1987) and Clancey (1997).…”

An Architecture for Requirements-Driven Self-reconfiguration

“…The architecture is structured as a set of interacting components connected through a Monitor-Diagnose-Compensate (MDC) cycle. Its main application area is systems composed of several interacting systems, such as Socio-Technical Systems [4] (STSs) and Ambient Intelligence (AmI) scenarios. We have chosen to use Tropos [5] goal models as a basis for expressing requirements, for they suit well for modeling social dependencies between stakeholders.…”