In this series of short posts, I outline some of proxies for work-as-done. This post concerns work-as-instructed.
Author: stevenshorrock
This blog is written by Dr Steven Shorrock. I am interdisciplinary humanistic, systems and design practitioner interested in human work from multiple perspectives. My main interest is human and system behaviour, mostly in the context of safety-related organisations. I am a Chartered Ergonomist and Human Factors Specialist with the CIEHF and a Chartered Psychologist with the British Psychological Society. I currently work as a human factors and safety specialist in air traffic control in Europe. I am also Adjunct Associate Professor at University of the Sunshine Coast, Centre for Human Factors & Sociotechnical Systems, and Honorary Clinical Tutor at the University of Edinburgh. I blog in a personal capacity. Views expressed here are mine and not those of any affiliated organisation, unless stated otherwise. You can find me on twitter at @stevenshorrock or email contact[at]humanisticsystems[dot]com.
In this series of short posts, I outline some of proxies for work-as-done. This post concerns work-as-simulated.
In this series of short posts, I outline some of proxies for work-as-done. This post concerns work-as-observed.
In this series of short posts, I outline some of proxies for work-as-done. This post concerns work-as-analysed.
In this series of short posts, I outline some of proxies for work-as-done. This post concerns work-as-disclosed.
In this series of short posts, I outline briefly some proxies for work-as-done. This post concerns work-as-prescribed.
In this seres of short posts, I outline briefly some proxies for Work-as-Done.
Many ideas spring up in the world of management and organisational behaviour aimed at ‘treating…
Work-as-disclosed is what we say or write about work, and how we talk or write about it, either casually or more formally. This post outlines three spaces for work-as-disclosed are relevant to trying to reduce the gap between work-as-disclosed and work-as-done.
All human activity, along with associated emergent problematic situations and opportunities, is embedded in context. The ‘context’ is, however, a a melange of different contexts. An approach that I have found useful is to spend time considering contextual influences (e.g., on decision making, at multiple levels of organisations) on problematic situations or potential solutions, more explicitly.
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