# Sociotechnical Theory

*Tom Geraghty · Ecological Thinking, Organisational Design*

Introduces sociotechnical theory — developed at Tavistock in the 1950s — as the framework for understanding organisations as complex adaptive systems in which social and technical elements co-evolve and cannot be improved independently.

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