The article focuses upon the concept of self‐service within the service sector. The nature and growth, as well as the present and potential use of self‐service are analysed and explored. Starting with the service industry, several common classification and evaluation schemes are reviewed....

Some of the limitations of the methodologies of productivity measures, human resource accounting and socio‐technical aspects of job design are reviewed. In order to overcome some of the limitations inherent in the above methodologies, a Socio‐Technical Accounting System (STAS) is developed...