Facilitating and Hindering Factors in Implementing Managerial Technology: A Socio-Technical System Process
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description: In recent years scientists, researchers and practitioners have focused on the application and theory of managerial technologies in developing countries. Evidence suggests that the implementation of these technologies is widely sought in these countries, but that they suffer from several limitations. Among these are: (a) lack of environmental compatibility in the societies and cultures in which attempts are made to apply such organizational theories and practices; (b) differences between economic systems of developing nations and industrialized nations (c) differences in political history, values and practices and (d) differences in organizational functioning and behavior as a result of these three conditions. Employing a socio-technical system conceptual framework, the present study was designed to discover, through examination of decision-making processes of managers, what are the macro-environment and organizational factors that either facilitate or hinder the implementation of human resources management technologies commonly found in advanced industrial nations (e.g., in training, organizational development and performance measurement programs) by companies residing in a less industrially developed country. Initially, in the planning and design stage, 29 interviews were conducted with managers from 18 companies in Peru. These were content analyzed to: (1) uncover problems, issues and procedures involved in human resources management in that country, (2) identify factors helping and hindering implementation of human resources technologies, and (3) design realistic scenarios, given certain environmental and organizational conditions, policy-capturing analysis of managers' decisions. Then, a comprehensive survey containing socio-technical analysis measures, 15 scenarios, and personal as well as organizational characteristic items were presented to 125 upper-level managers from 85 multinational and locally owned organizations. Results identified the political, econom…
abstract: In recent years scientists, researchers and practitioners have focused on the application and theory of managerial technologies in developing countries. Evidence suggests that the implementation of these technologies is widely sought in these countries, but that they suffer from several limitations. Among these are: (a) lack of environmental compatibility in the societies and cultures in which attempts are made to apply such organizational theories and practices; (b) differences between economic systems of developing nations and industrialized nations (c) differences in political history, values and practices and (d) differences in organizational functioning and behavior as a result of these three conditions. Employing a socio-technical system conceptual framework, the present study was designed to discover, through examination of decision-making processes of managers, what are the macro-environment and organizational factors that either facilitate or hinder the implementation of human resources management technologies commonly found in advanced industrial nations (e.g., in training, organizational development and performance measurement programs) by companies residing in a less industrially developed country. Initially, in the planning and design stage, 29 interviews were conducted with managers from 18 companies in Peru. These were content analyzed to: (1) uncover problems, issues and procedures involved in human resources management in that country, (2) identify factors helping and hindering implementation of human resources technologies, and (3) design realistic scenarios, given certain environmental and organizational conditions, policy-capturing analysis of managers' decisions. Then, a comprehensive survey containing socio-technical analysis measures, 15 scenarios, and personal as well as organizational characteristic items were presented to 125 upper-level managers from 85 multinational and locally owned organizations. Results identified the political, econom…
author: Salas Garcia, Eduardo Alejandro
keywords: Human capital, Technological innovations, System process, Industrial and Organizational Psychology
date published: 1984-04-01T08:00:00Z
date modified: 2026-07-24T03:35:23Z
provider: Old Dominion University
publisher: Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations
type: WebPage
source organization: Old Dominion University