Organizational systems: managing complexity with the viable system model

Organizational Systems clarifies the application of cybernetic ideas, particularly those of Beer's Viable System Model, to organizational diagnosis and design. Readers learn to appreciate the relevance of seeing the systemic coherence of the world. The book argues that many of the problems we experience today are routed in our practice of fragmenting that needs to be connected as a whole. It offers a method to study and design organizations and a methodology to deal with implementation problems. It is the outcome of many years of working experience with government offices as well as with all kinds of public and private enterprises. At a more detailed level this book offers an in depth discussion of variety engineering that is not available either in the primary or secondary literature. Offers a system of ideas and methods that so far have not been presented together. Develops in detail a theory of complexity that helps understanding Stafford Beer's Viable System Model. It offer's Espejo's Viplan Method to diagnose and design organizations and Espejo's Viplan Methodology to deal with problems of implementation in organizations. INDICE: Part I Concepts and the Viable System Model. - Part II Viplan Method. - Part III Methodology and Systemic Thinking.

• ISBN: 978-3-642-19108-4
• Editorial: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 264
• Fecha Publicación: 02/04/2011
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés