Multi-Disciplinary Socio-Technical Management: Integrating Robot Technology and Management Issues

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Multi-Disciplinary Socio-Technical Management: Integrating Robot Technology and Management Issues Kristian Wasén Abstract: Optimal integrated design is potentially the most significant consequence of recent advances in service robotic technologies, enabling novel organizational forms to evolve. This paper provides a broad vision of the advent of a novel multi-disciplinary organizational function in the manufacturing and service sectors. Socio-technical management means an appreciation of the interplay among technology, economic issues and human factors. This allows an extended range of economic feasibility for robotic applications that also enables a more humane work organization. Contemporary trends are reviewed. Anticipated changes in operation and work organization are discussed, indicating a new robotic era. Keywords: robotics, technological management, industrial engineering, automation and socio-economic issues, work and organizational design, organizational effectiveness DOI: https://doi.org/10.22260/ISARC2004/0007 Download fulltext Download BibTex Download Endnote (RIS) TeX Import to Mendeley