Ikeda Y T
Aichi Institute of Technology, 1247 Yachigusa Yakusa, Toyota, 470-0392 Japan.
J Hum Ergol (Tokyo). 1997 Dec;26(2):165-71.
At least three serious aspects of problems exist as obstacles for the national economy in Japan to grow or even to maintain its present level: the lack of natural resources, the trends of a decreasing young labor force, and an increase in the shift of domestic business operations to foreign countries. Although top managers make the decisions of product or service planning, or both, work systems designers are also responsible for conserving the resources. An action against the decrease of the young work force is needed to maintain work systems in an operable condition. The business shifts to foreign countries affect all the people, who are losing job opportunities. The present paper presents an approach to reorienting human work systems within the scope of the work systems designers' roles under the circumstance of these social environments. The following discussion is based on the assumptions that work organizations be productive for themselves and the world, effective and efficient for themselves, and contributive to their communities and the world. In essence, an approach to human work systems development should be fair to managers and workers alike. Presented are cases of these work systems as developed along the perspectives mentioned.
自然资源匮乏、年轻劳动力减少趋势以及国内商业运营向国外转移的增加。尽管高层管理人员做出产品或服务规划的决策，或两者兼而有之，但工作系统设计师也有责任节约资源。需要采取行动应对年轻劳动力的减少，以维持工作系统的可运行状态。商业向国外转移影响到所有正在失去工作机会的人。本文提出了一种在这些社会环境下，在工作系统设计师角色范围内重新定位人类工作系统的方法。以下讨论基于这样的假设：工作组织对自身和世界具有生产力，对自身有效且高效，并对其社区和世界有所贡献。从本质上讲，人类工作系统发展的方法应该对管理者和工人一视同仁。文中呈现了沿着上述观点发展的这些工作系统的案例。
