Joint Design of Organisation and Technology - The Inside Story

Abstract The QUALIT team builds an interactive tool to support complex change processes and improve work conditions. The paper concentrates on challenges and obstacles of multidisciplinary tool development by psychologists, sociologists and engineers. The change management framework with a set of tools and a keyword driven case library provides guidance and flexibility and bridges the different requirements of users. Progressing co-operation in this QUALIT team is mirrored with the history of expanding engineering fields that allows a limited prediction of the future consideration for “integrated design” of factory work.