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System Design and Social Reality: Formal and Informal Aspects of Administrative Control

Rolf Höyer (Independent Management Consultant and Organization Researcher)

Personnel Review

ISSN: 0048-3486

Article publication date: 1 January 1976

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Abstract

When computers were first used in work organizations they were seen principally as devices able to perform simple and limited functions. In consequence they were used to automate routine tasks which had previously been done manually — producing bills, payrolls etc — and they appeared in organizations primarily concerned with large‐scale information processing such as banks, insurance, finance institutions and departments concerned with control. They were also to be found in organizations and departments where large‐scale data processing was a means for achieving desired goals, for example, engineering firms and research and development departments.

Citation

Höyer, R. (1976), "System Design and Social Reality: Formal and Informal Aspects of Administrative Control", Personnel Review, Vol. 5 No. 1, pp. 5-12. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb055298

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MCB UP Ltd

Copyright © 1976, MCB UP Limited

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