Kun je de HR-professional in gesprek brengen met de organisatieontwerper? Het verbinden van de SMART-werkontwerpbenadering met sociotechnische ontwerpprincipes
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HR professionals typically emphasize the importance of human needs and job satisfaction when it comes to work design, whereas organizational designers often focus on division of labor, work processes, and sociotechnical design aspects. Organizational designers highlight strategic and organizational choices as prerequisites for work quality, while HR professionals concentrate on person-environment fit approaches. Recently, we have seen a convergence in the field of organizational and labor sciences with the development of the SMART work design model; this approach integrates individual, team, and organizational elements, linking human needs, job characteristics, and organizational conditions. Previously, researchers in Europe had already connected sociotechnical design thinking to organizational design principles for production layouts and work quality criteria. This is particularly characteristic of the modern sociotechnical approach, or the “modern sociotechnics” (MST) of the Low Countries. This conceptual and essayistic article aims to spark a discussion on how elements of the SMART work design approach and modern sociotechnics can be integrated into a comprehensive approach where “HR professionals and organizational designers meet.” The article argues that the WEBA tool can serve as a bridge in this context.
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1003573
Source
Tijdschrift voor HRM, 27(4), pp. 66-93.
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66-93