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Twenty Five Years: Reflections on the Practice of Improving Work

  • by stevenshorrock
  • Posted on 06/11/202217/03/2023

In this post, I reflect on what I learned since graduating and have found to be most important to practice in the design and improvement of work.

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  • Humanistic Psychology

Adjusting to Major Life Changes

  • by stevenshorrock
  • Posted on 16/05/202218/05/2022

When stressful or traumatic life events come along, we all respond in different ways. One of these may seem counter-intuitive, that we can thrive and flourish following adversity. In this article, Stephen Joseph introduces the psychology of post-traumatic growth, with Steven Shorrock.

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  • Culture

The Commodification of Human Decency

  • by stevenshorrock
  • Posted on 22/10/202027/03/2023

Many ideas spring up in the world of management and organisational behaviour aimed at ‘treating…

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  • Humanistic Psychology

Four Kinds Of Thinking: 1. Humanistic Thinking

  • by stevenshorrock
  • Posted on 06/11/201923/12/2022

Understanding and intervention for system performance and human wellbeing is rooted – to some extent – in four kinds of thinking. In this short series, I outline these. This post focuses on humanistic thinking.

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  • Humanistic Psychology

Work and How to Survive It: Lesson 3. Encourage the Whole Self

  • by stevenshorrock
  • Posted on 19/01/201928/02/2023

This is the third in a series reflecting on excerpts from Life and How To Survive It, by the psychotherapist Robin Skynner and the comedian John Cleese, with some reflections on work and organisations.

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  • Human Factors/Ergonomics

Four Kinds of ‘Human Factors’: 1. The Human Factor

  • by stevenshorrock
  • Posted on 11/08/201713/03/2023

This is the first of a short blog post series, on four kinds of ‘Human Factors’: ‘The Human Factor.

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  • Human Factors/Ergonomics

Reducing ‘The Human Factor’

  • by stevenshorrock
  • Posted on 08/07/201516/03/2023

If you work in an industry such as transportation or healthcare – where human involvement is…

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  • Safety

If It Weren’t for the People…

  • by stevenshorrock
  • Posted on 04/10/201424/03/2023

In Kurt Vonnegut’s dystopian novel ‘Player Piano’, automation has replaced most human labour. Anything that…

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  • systems thinking

Recovery from Command-and-Control: A Twelve-Step Program

  • by stevenshorrock
  • Posted on 12/07/201420/03/2023

Most of us in democratic countries would hate to see the rise authoritarianism. When we…

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  • Human Factors/Ergonomics

Maslow’s Hammer: How Tools Bias Attention and Straightjacket Thinking

  • by stevenshorrock
  • Posted on 18/12/201327/03/2023

In May 2013, Edition 5 of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5)…

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Steven Shorrock is an interdisciplinary humanistic, systems and design practitioner interested in human work from multiple perspectives.

Chartered Psychologist (CPsychol) & Chartered Ergonomist and Human Factors Specialist (CErgHF)

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