Complexity and Management
| Autor: | Peter M. Allen |
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| Rok vydání: | 2011 |
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Process management
Knowledge management business.industry Process (engineering) media_common.quotation_subject Organizational studies Complexity theory and organizations Organizational space Adaptability Organizational behavior Organizational learning business Psychology Organizational effectiveness media_common |
| Popis: | Publisher Summary This chapter provides application of complexity theory in organizational management and evolution. Organizational behavior must be such as to allow organizational evolution, or the organization will fail. The rules that allow organizational evolution are: the presence of mechanisms that produce internal heterogeneity, which will involve freedom, ignorance and underlying error-making, exploratory processes; differential performance needs to be detected and evaluated with respect to their alignment with higher level goals. This will then provide the selection process that will amplify or suppress different elements of individual behavior. Successful management must behave as evolution does and make sure that mechanisms of exploration and experiment are present in the organization. Though they will not be profitable in the short term they are the only guarantee of survival into the longer term. In reality, the organizations that we observe and describe formally at any given moment are “structural attractors”, which, if they persist over time, will change qualitatively as successive organizational forms emerge. Further, this discussion of organizational dynamics reinforces the replacement of maximal efficiency with “sufficient efficiency” combined with the adaptability, but emphasizes the significance of self organized, organizational change in underwriting this process. |
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