Socioergonomics: A few clarifications on the Technology-Organizations-People Tryptic
It addresses the need for integrating social sciences into ergonomics for Industry 4.0 sociotechnical systems, but it is incremental as it builds on existing concepts.
This position paper introduces 'socioergonomics' as a sociological, ontological, and methodological framework to support human systems integration, extending Technology Readiness Levels to Organizational Readiness Levels and incorporating systemic properties like flexibility and emergent social facts.
This position paper introduces and coins the term socioergonomics, considered as a sociological, ontological, and methodological support to human systems integration (HSI). It describes the evolution of ergonomics from early physiological to psychological to contemporary social sciences approaches supporting Industry 4.0 sociotechnical systems engineering. It presents a Technology Readiness Levels (TRLs) extension to Organizational Readiness Levels (ORLs) and a departure toward a socioergonomics approach that includes systemic properties such as flexibility, separability, and emergent social facts.