All Models Are Wrong, and Some Are Useful By Tom Geraghty This is one of my favourite, and most often used, aphorisms. It’s attributed to George Box, a British statistician, from a 1976 paper on Science and Statistics, though the […]
Sociotechnical
If we think about how we can apply sociotechnical theory in practice, we realise that organisational change or technological change will fail if we focus on one component (social or technical) in isolation and to the exclusion of others. We must consider how people are affected by technologies, and likewise, how technologies affect the way people behave.
Thanks for subscribing to the psychological safety newsletter! This week we have “positive deviance”, sociotechnical architecture, “unbelonging”, design practices and the Maginot Line Problem, plus even more!More exciting news! Psych Safety Merchandise is on its way!! We have stickers in production, and some other […]
