Intelligent Organizations: Powerful Models for Systemic Management

✍ Scribed by Prof. Dr. Markus Schwaninger (auth.)

Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
Year: 2009
Tongue: English
Leaves: 239
Edition: 2
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

The systems approach in which this work is grounded enables the development of the new kind of intelligent organizations so urgently needed. Powerful models, based on organizational cybernetics and system dynamics, are presented in a way that lets the reader immediately apply them in practice. This book will be a rich source for improvement in any kind of organization, whether private or public, non-profit, large or small.

The new edition is updated and even more reader-friendly.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Organizational Intelligence in Systemic Terms....Pages 1-9
Complexity and Understanding....Pages 11-22
Management — A Distributed Function....Pages 23-33
Intelligent Organization — A Systemic Framework....Pages 35-45
Activities: What the Organization Does....Pages 47-81
Structure — Preconditions for Effective Action....Pages 83-108
Behaviour — The Control of Cognition and Emotion....Pages 110-132
Ethos and Identity: Basic Parameters of Organizations....Pages 133-165
Time and Organizational Dynamics....Pages 167-179
The Framework Revisited....Pages 181-202
Outlook: The Way Ahead....Pages 203-206
Back Matter....Pages 207-236

✦ Subjects

Organization/Planning; Management/Business for Professionals

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