15 Facts About Fred Emery

Frederick Edmund Emery was an Australian psychologist.

Fred Emery was one of the pioneers in the field of organizational development, particularly in the development of theory around participative work design structures such as self-managing teams.

Fred Emery was widely regarded as one of the finest social scientists of his generation.

Fred Emery left school as Dux of Fremantle Boys' High in Western Australia at age 14.

Fred Emery gained his honors degree in science from the University of Western Australia in 1946, and joined the teaching staff of the department in 1947.

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Fred Emery subsequently spent nine years on the staff of the Department of Psychology, University of Melbourne, where he obtained his PhD in 1953.

In 1957, Fred Emery left Australia for London to join the staff of the Tavistock Institute, where he did the majority of his early work.

Fred Emery subsequently published 'The Characteristics of Sociotechnical Systems' in 1959.

Fred Emery returned to Australia in 1969, and went to the Australian National University.

Fred Emery was awarded the first Elton Mayo award in 1988 by the Australian Psychological Society and received a DSc from Macquarie University in 1992.

At the ANU, Fred Emery continued his action research in industry and the public sector, developing new tools for the diffusion of democracy in organisations and communities.

Fred Emery died at his home on 10 April 1997, at the age of 71 in Canberra, Australia.

Fred Emery had a prime interest in the nature of work; in particular, how people organised themselves, the machines, and other resources with which they worked, to achieve their goals, maintain their ideals and values, in the face of what he recognised as "turbulent environments".

Fred Emery made regular contributions to Business Review Weekly, consistently demonstrating his critical intelligence and willingness to challenge.

Fred Emery edited for Penguin two volumes of readings called Systems Thinking, which have been a staple resource on the origins and development of open systems thinking throughout the life sciences.