Integral Analysis and Evaluation of Enterprises as a Precondition for OptimalSociotechnical System Design

Effectiveness, efficiency and high quality of working conditions and working results are main effects of the sociotechnical optimization of companies. Sociotechnical aimstoward the joint optimization of the utilization and the development of the employees qualifications, the implementation of advanced technology as well as the design of the work organization(people-technology-organization approach). The allocation of functions betweenhuman and machine has a crucial importance. Sociotechnicallyoptimized, what we call work-oriented, enterprises are characterized by decentralizationat the level of the enterprise, functional integration at the level of organizational units, work in self-regulated groups and qualified work at the level of individual work tasks. ... In the research project Design of Computer Aided Integrated Manufacturing Systems (orig.German Gestaltung rechnerunterstützter integrierter Produktionssysteme (GRIPS) sociotechnical concepts for the design of computer aided integrated manufacturing systems have been developed and empirically examined.