Social architect
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A social architect is a person who is involved in the planning, designing, modeling and overseeing of a society's construction. The word "architect" (Latin: architectus) derives from the Greek arkhitekton (arkhi, chief + tekton, builder").
In the broadest sense a social architect is a person who translates society's needs and wants into a physical, well-built structure.
A social architect must thoroughly understand the society's structure, culture, etc. and operational codes under which his or her design must conform.
That degree of knowledge is necessary so that he or she is not apt to omit any necessary requirements, or produce improper, conflicting, ambiguous, or confusing requirements.
Social architects must understand the various methods available to the social development professionals for building the society's structure, so that he or she can negotiate with the society to produce a best possible compromise of the results desired within explicit cost and time boundaries.
The idea of what constitutes a result desired varies among social architects, as the values and attitudes which underlie modern social architecture differ both between the schools of thought which influence social architecture and between individual practising social architects.
In the organizational sense, the social architect influences and guides the behaviours of teams and individuals so as to acheive the objectives and goals of the organization. This is accomplished by means of developing effective communication, peformance managment, incentive based recognition and reward systems and participatory forums for all individuals and teams under management.
