![]() ![]() ![]() Instead, new technologies in the workplace had to respect people’s needs for social contact and interaction. Then in the early 1950s, especially with Tavistock Institute’s research on socio-technical systems, it was discovered that any new technology that inadvertently broke up existing work groups, and thereby destroyed the social fabric in the workplace, could not realize its financial potential. By encouraging people to engage in conversation in the workplace and to be part of an interactive work group or team, it seemed that people would be highly motivated to contribute their physical skills in the workplace. Then in the 1930s, researchers in the famous Hawthorne studies “discovered” that people were not just physical beings but were also social beings, and, as such, people had social needs along with social skills. Indeed, signs that were posted to recruit workers proclaimed: “Hands for Hire.” The organization’s systems and processes attempted to make the best use of every member’s physical skills. POSTCODE IN SURINAME MANUALIn the old days, before the 1900s, it was mostly a person’s physical skills that were brought into the workplace…skills for manual labor, coupled with various tools and machines. ![]()
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