Human Factors in Complex Systems

Catalog description

An examination of organizations and sustainable systems as socio-technical systems, including socio-technical approaches to design, implementation, and management is provided. The exploration of the understanding of effective interactions among people who work across organizational, geographical, cultural, technological, and temporal boundaries, as a means to design effective complex socio-technical systems is the focus of the course. Discussions include participative design and decision-making; quality of work life; semi-autonomous work groups; organizational ecology; and collective resource approaches to planning.