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                                   Social and Ecological Environment

                                                  Market




                                                  - Employees
                                                  - Qualifications
                                                  - Individual needs
                                                  - Collective needs
                                                   People

                                                  Work Tasks
                                 Inputs     Transformation Processes   Outputs


                                     Technology              Organization
                                 - Infrastructure          - Division of tasks
                                 - Tools                   - Work processes
                                 - Information systems     - Structures of decision making
                                 - Materials               - Structures of communication

                        FIGURE 5.1 The people–technology–organization–approach







                                                     ➔ Number of interfaces
                         Order                       ➔ Quality of interfaces
                                                     ➔ Necessary versus unnecessary redundancies
                         Processing                  ➔ Quality of planning
                                                     ➔ Functional integration
                         ➔ Independence of the organizational unit
                         ➔ Relatedness of tasks within the organizational
                             unit                               Work Systems
                         ➔ Unity of product and organization
                         ➔ Polyvalence of the employees
                         ➔ Technical-organizational convergence


                                                        ➔ Planning, execution and control of a
                         Work Groups                        complete group task
                                                        ➔ Possibilities for collective regulation of
                                                            work tasks and work conditions
                         ➔ Completeness
                         ➔ Variety                              Individual
                         ➔ Communication and cooperation requirements
                         ➔ Autonomy                             Work Tasks
                         ➔ Opportunities for learning and development

                        FIGURE 5.2 Criteria for design of order processing, work systems, work groups and individual
                        work tasks
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