Eric Trist

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Eric Trist is affiliated with the following schools: University of Pennsylvania, York University, University of St Andrews, Yale University, University of California, Los Angeles

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According to Wikipedia, Eric Lansdown Trist was an English scientist and leading figure in the field of organizational development . He was one of the founders of the Tavistock Institute for Social Research in London. Biography Trist was born in 1909 in Dover, Kent, England of a Cornish father, Frederick Trist, and a Scottish mother, Alexina Trist nee Middleton. He grew up in Dover experiencing dramatic air raids in the first world war. He went to Cambridge University - Pembroke College in 1928, where he read English Literature, graduating with first-class honours. Influenced heavily by his don I. A. Richards he became interested in Psychology, Gestalt psychology, and Psychoanalysis, and went on to read psychology under Frederic Bartlett. At that time Trist has said he was very interested in articles by Kurt Lewin. When Kurt Lewin left Germany as Adolf Hitler came to power, he travelled to Palestine via the USA, stopping off in England, where Trist briefly met him and showed him around Cambridge.

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Eric Trist's Published Works

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The Causal Texture of Organizational Environments (1965) (2920)
Some Social and Psychological Consequences of the Longwall Method of Coal-Getting (1951) (2277)
The Evolution of Socio-Technical Systems: A Conceptual Framework and an Action Research Program (1981) (832)
Referent Organizations and the Development of Inter-Organizational Domains (1983) (570)
Towards A Social Ecology (1973) (281)
Renewing American Industry. (1984) (277)
Towards a Social Ecology: Contextual Appreciation of the Future in the Present (1973) (185)
The casual texture of organizational environments, human relations (1965) (170)
An Experiment in Autonomous Working in an American Underground Coal Mine (1977) (163)
A Concept of Organizational Ecology (1977) (141)
Autonomy at work: A sociotechnical analysis of participative management (1976) (140)
All Teams are not Created Equal: How Employee Empowerment Really Works (1992) (128)
Changes in Accidents and other Absences with Length of Service (1955) (126)
A Consideration of Industrial Accidents as a Means of Withdrawal from the work situation (1953) (106)
Collaboration in Work Settings: A Personal Perspective (1977) (100)
Organizational Choice. Capabilities of Groups at the Coal Face under Changing Technologies. The Loss, Re-Discovery and Transformation of a Work Tradition (1964) (99)
Social Systems as a Defense Against Anxiety An Empirical Study of the Nursing Service of a General Hospital (1990) (99)
The environment and system-response capability (1980) (87)
The Representation of Labour Turnover as a Social Process (1950) (81)
The Social Engagement of Social Science, Volume 1: A Tavistock Anthology: The Socio-Psychological Perspective (1990) (75)
The Social Engagement of Social Science, Volume 2: A Tavistock Anthology--The Socio-Technical Perspective (1993) (74)
A Socio-Technical Perspective (1993) (65)
Form and content in industrial democracy: Some experiences from Norway and other European countries (1969) (63)
A Psychoanalytical Perspective on Social Institutions (1990) (61)
Paradigms for Societal Transition (1986) (47)
Organizational Choice: Capabilities of Groups at the Coal Face under Changing Technologies: The Loss, Re-discovery and Transformation of a Work Tradition. (1966) (45)
Historical Overview The Foundation and Development of the Tavistock Institute (1990) (43)
Action Research and Adaptive Planning (1976) (43)
Transitional Communities and Social Reconnection (1947) (39)
Institutional and Sub-institutional Determinants of Change in Labour Turnover (1952) (39)
New directions of hope: Recent innovations interconnecting organizational, industrial, community and personal development (1979) (36)
Experiential Learning in Groups I The Development of the Leicester Model (1990) (35)
The Social Engagement of Social Science: A Tavistock Anthology: Vol. 1: The Socio-Psychological Perspective. (1991) (34)
Engaging with Large-Scale Systems (1976) (32)
Bion Revisited Group Dynamics and Group Psychotherapy (1990) (31)
On the Dynamics of Social Structure A Contribution to the Psychoanalytical Study of Social Phenomena Deriving from the Views of Melanie Klein (1990) (30)
A Socio-Technical Critique of Scientific Management (1993) (29)
The assumptions of ordinariness as a denial mechanism: Innovation and conflict in a coal mine (1989) (21)
Task and Sentient Systems and Their Boundary Controls (1990) (21)
Quality of Working Life and Community Development: Some Reflections on the Jamestown Experience (1986) (20)
Courses and Working Conferences as Transitional Learning Institutions (1990) (20)
Explorations in Group Relations (1959) (19)
Introduction to Volume II (1993) (18)
The socio-ecological perspective (1997) (17)
The socio-psychological perspective (1990) (17)
Organizational Choice (Rle: Organizations): Capabilities of Groups at the Coal Face Under Changing Technologies (1963) (17)
The Social Engagement of Social Science: A Tavistock Anthology, Vol. 1: The Socio-Psychological Perspective. (1992) (17)
The Institution of an Absent Leader by a Students' Discussion Group (1953) (14)
Industrial accidents, sickness and other absences (1962) (12)
Asylum and society (1990) (11)
Experiential Learning in Groups II Recent Developments in Dissemination and Application (1990) (11)
Culture as a Psycho-Social Process (1990) (11)
Connective Planning From Practice to Theory and Back (1997) (8)
Temporary Withdrawal from Work Under Full Employment The Formation of an Absence Culture (1990) (7)
Volume II. The Socio-Technical Perspective (1993) (6)
The Cultural Absence of the Post-industrial Society (1973) (6)
Transitional Communities and Social Reconnection The Civil Resettlement of British Prisoners of War (1990) (6)
Task and Contextual Environments for New Personal Values (1973) (6)
The Stress of Isolated Dependence The Filling Shift in the Semi-Mechanized Longwall Three-Shift Mining Cycle (1993) (6)
Exploration in group relations : a residential conference held in September 1957 by the University of Leicester and the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations (1959) (6)
Socio-Technical Ideas at the End of the ’70s (1993) (5)
The Use of Unrecognized Cultural Mechanisms in an Expanding Machine Shop With a Contribution to the Theory of Leadership (1990) (5)
Working-Through Industrial Conflict The Service Department at the Glacier Metal Company (1990) (5)
Action Research in Minisocieties (1990) (4)
Alternative Work Organizations An Exact Comparison (1993) (4)
A Brief Introduction to the Emerys’ “Search Conference” (1993) (4)
The Environment and System Response Capability A Futures Perspective (1997) (4)
The Limits of Laissez-Faire as a Socio-Technical Change Strategy (1993) (3)
The Establishment of Problem-oriented Research Domains (1973) (3)
Work Improvement and Organizational Democracy (1993) (3)
British interdisciplinarian interviewed by Marshall Sashkin (1980) (3)
Pava’s Extension of Socio-Technical Theory to Advanced Information Technologies (1993) (3)
The Causal Texture of Organizational Environments 1 Identification of the Problem (2000) (2)
Towards a Social Ecology (1973) (2)
Non-Medical Marital Therapy The Growth of the Institute of Marital Studies (1990) (2)
Dual-Career Families The Evolution of a Concept (1990) (2)
Conjugal Roles and Social Networks (1990) (2)
Socio-Technical Projects in the Canadian Federal Public Service (1993) (2)
Re-evaluating the Role of Science (1973) (1)
Jock Sutherland CBE, BSc, PhD, MBChB, FRCPE, FRCPsych, DPM (1992) (1)
Diagnostic performance tests : a manual for use with adults (1958) (1)
An Educational Model for Group Dynamics The Phenomenon of an Absent Leader (1990) (1)
Notes on the Russian National Character (1990) (1)
Planning and a Conceptual Basis for Predicting the Future (1973) (1)
From Planning Towards the Surrender of Power (1973) (1)
Action Research in an American Underground Coal Mine (1993) (1)
Collaborative Social and Technical Innovation (1973) (0)
The General Characteristics of Social Fields—Environmental Levels (1973) (0)
Some Additional Reflections on Working with Bion in the `Forties (1987) (0)
Latent Content of Television Viewing (1990) (0)
Adaptation to Turbulent Environments (1973) (0)
THE CATUAL TEXTURE OF ORGANIZATION ENVIROMENTS (1964) (0)
The Risk-Security Balance and the Burden of Choice (1973) (0)
A Comparison of Organizational Extremes Characteristics of Two Panels (2000) (0)
The Structural Presence of the Post-industrial Society (1973) (0)
The Relation of Welfare and Development: Historical and Contemporary Aspects (1973) (0)
The need of the social psychiatrist to influence wider social networks and their environments. (1965) (0)
The Early Detection of Emergent Processes (1973) (0)
QWL and the ’80s (1993) (0)
METHODOLOGIES FOR THE EVALUATION AND IMPROVEMENT OF EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICE SYSTEMS. VOLUME II. APPENDICES (1975) (0)
Dr. Robert N. Rapoport (1973) (0)
9. Andras Angyal and Systems Thinking (1992) (0)
Presidential Address at the Closing Session (1965) (0)
Socio-Technical Theory to Advanced Information Technologies 1 (1983) (0)
Obituary. Jock Sutherland. (1992) (0)
The Relation of Welfare and Development: Systems and Ideo-Existential Aspects (1973) (0)
Exploration in Management: A Description of The Glacier Metal Company's Concepts and Methods of Organization and Management. (1962) (0)

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