Realationships Between Work, Organisational Re-engineering and Information Systems

摘要

This workshop is sponsored by IFIP WG9.1 (Computers and Work), and the Union Research Centre on Organisation and Technology (URCOT). Increasingly organisations are under pressure to change their work practices and organisational structures. Typically these changes are supported by information and communication technologies that have major impacts on jobs, the workpalce itself, and employment generally. Yet HCI research and practice have tended to foucs on the interface between the indivudal user and the computer. This focus has excluded the relationships between the technology, the people who use it, the organisational environment and the work the technology is intended to support. The goal of the workshop is to clarify both the dynamics between organisational restructure and technological systems, as well as their implications for the work that is required to use the systems. how this is performed and under what conditions.