# It treated the individual as complementary to the machine… - Eric Trist

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# It treated the individual as complementary to the machine rather than as an extension of it (Jordan, 1963).

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Eric Lansdown Trist (September 11, 1909 – June 4, 1993) was a British psychologist, organizational theorist, and leading figure in the field of Organizational Development (OD). He was one of the founders of the Tavistock Institute for Social Research in London.

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# Internal regulation of the system by the group was thus rendered possible rather than the external regulation of individuals by supervisors.

# It was variety-increasing for both the individual and the organization rather than variety-decreasing in the bureaucratic mode.

What happened in the Haighmoor seam gave to Bamforth and myself a first glimpse of the "emergence of a new paradigm of work" (Emery, 1978) in which the best match would be sought between the requirements of the social and technical systems. Some of the principles involved were as follows:

# It treated the individual as complementary to the machine rather than as an extension of it (Jordan, 1963). - Eric Trist

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