Intelligent Organizations: Powerful Models for Systemic Management

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

• Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2006
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 241
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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

✦ Table of Contents

Organizational Intelligence in Systemic Terms....Pages 1-9
Complexity and Understanding....Pages 11-21
Management — A Distributed Function....Pages 23-33
Intelligent Organization — A Systemic Framework....Pages 35-45
Activities: What the Organization Does....Pages 47-79
Structure — Preconditions for Effective Action....Pages 81-109
Behavior — The Control of Cognition and Emotion....Pages 111-134
Ethos and Identity: Basic Parameters of Organizations....Pages 135-169
Time and Organizational Dynamics....Pages 171-184
The Framework Revisited....Pages 185-208
Outlook: The Way Ahead....Pages 209-212

✦ Subjects

Organization/Planning; Management