Socio-technical systems

In organizational development, socio-technical systems (or STS) is an approach to complex organizational work design that recognizes the interaction between people and technology in workplaces.

The term socio-technical system also refers to the interaction between society's complex infrastructures and human behaviour. In this sense, society itself, and most of its sub-structures, are complex socio-technical systems.

Some topics in STS

 * job design
 * task analysis
 * job enrichment
 * job enlargement
 * job rotation
 * motivation
 * satisfaction
 * autonomy
 * process improvement
 * self-managing teams

The term sociotechnical systems was coined by Eric Trist and Fred Emery, founders of the Tavistock Institute in London.