Human Factors in Organizational Design and Management: Proceedings of First Symposium Held in Honolulu, Hawaii, 21-24 August, 1984Hal W. Hendrick, Ogden Brown This symposium, sponsored by the Human Factors Society and the International Ergonomics Association, provided a unique opportunity for researchers and practitioners of human factors/ergonomics, organizational behavior and related fields to meet and share their ideas and expertise in this rapidly expanding interdisciplinary area. New technology, the changing demographic composition, values and attitudes of work forces, and a renewed emphasis on both productivity and the quality of work life have created a need for a true macroergonomic systems approach to the design of organizational and managerial systems. These factors also have heightened the need to consider organizational design elements and managerial processes in the application of human factors/ergonomics to the design of specific subsystems, jobs and workstations. While a number of new methods have been developed and utilized to study and apply human factors on a macroergonomic level, there had been little communication of these methods, research and applications across continents prior to this symposium. |
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Cognitive Complexity Conceptual Systems and Organizational Design | 15 |
A Cognitive Complexity Based Simulation for Management Assessment | 27 |
A Systems Analysis Approach to Integrating OD and Ergonomic | 33 |
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