A modified framework for the evaluation of technological choice

摘要

This paper begins by presenting in outline a tool developed by Chris Clegg et al (1996) for the elicitation of options in the use of workplace technology. Through a process of scenario generation, the tool is desgined to identify and evaluate choices in work organisation and to make more explicit the implications that such choices might have for people and work roles. A central aim is to encourage the participation of different organisational stakeholder groups in the evaluation process. This paper goes on to identify some weaknesses in the tool and to suggest some possible improvements. The author draws, ikn particular, upon the work of Harrington (1991), Zuboff (1988) and Scott Morton (1991) in order to develop a modified framwork which will provide more guidance to stakeholders during the scenario-generating process and which will make more explicit the values and assumptions underlying them.