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Proxies for work-as-done: a blog series by Steven Shorrock, Humanistic Systems

Summary

In any attempt to understand or intervene in the design and conduct of work, we can consider several kinds of ‘work’. In practically all attempts at understanding and intervention, however, we are not considering actual purposeful activity – work-as-done. Rather, we use proxies for work-as-done as the basis for understanding and intervention.

Content

In a series of short posts, Steven Shorrock, Humanistic Systems, outlines briefly some of these proxies.

  1. Work-as-imagined
  2. Work-as-prescribed
  3. Work-as-disclosed
  4. Work-as-analysed
  5. Work-as-observed
  6. Work-as-simulated
  7. Work-as-instructed
  8. Work-as-managed
  9. Work-as-judged
Proxies for work-as-done: a blog series by Steven Shorrock, Humanistic Systems https://humanisticsystems.com/2020/10/28/proxies-for-work-as-done-1-work-as-imagined/

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