[#]Sociotechnical principle of the day:
Deliberations – sequence of exchanges and communication
In the 80s, Calvin Pava felt that STS needed updating to keep pace with change and accommodate non-linear and non-routine knowledge work. He proposed extending the design practice with two patterns,
https://stsroundtable.com/wp-content/uploads/Pava-Redesigning-STS-Design.1986.pdf
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[#]Sociotechnical principle of the day:
Discretionary coalition – a population engaged in deliberations.
The second pattern from Pava is the social artefact matching the technical one, the deliberation. It was a novel organizing principle where the formal organization chart became scaffolding.
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Pava '86: "Effective coalitions reach informed tradeoffs and avoid lapses into ritual posturing or arbitrary battles over turfs." I.e. coalitions cuts across conventional technocratic and bureaucratic organisational structures and the issues are owned by the coalition.
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Pava '86: "In linear work systems, this emergent configurations has been designated the autonomous work group organization. In nonlinear work systems, the new template is a reticular organization, which is characterized by a fluid distribution of information and authority that shifts as required. Reticular organizations are 'heterarchical,' not hierarchical."
"Most work systems likely use a mixture."
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