Download or read book Diagnosing the System for Organizations written by Stafford Beer and published by Chichester [West Sussex] ; New York : Wiley. This book was released on 1985-06-26 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is concerned with the organization of enterprises in terms of underlying structure.
Download or read book Diagnosing the System for Organizations written by Stafford Beer and published by Wiley. This book was released on 1995-06-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Stafford Beer is undoubtedly among the world?s most provocative, creative, and profound thinkers on the subject of management, and he records his thinking with a flair that is unmatched. His writing is as much art as it is science. He is the most viable system I know." —Dr Russell L Ackoff, The Institute for Interactive Management, Pennsylvania, USA. "If ... anyone can make it [Operations Research] understandably readable and positively interesting it is Stafford Beer ... everyone in management ... should be grateful to him for using clear and at times elegant English and?even elegant diagrams." —The Economist In Brain of the Firm and The Heart of Enterprise Stafford Beer worked out the scientific laws that govern any viable system. They constitute the basis for this book which is concerned solely with the application of those laws to the understanding of any particular enterprise. In the form of a Handbook or Manager's Guide, Diagnosing the System deals with the fundamental problem of management?how to cope with complexity itself. It shows you how to design (or redesign) an enterprise in conformity with the laws of viability, and will help you to diagnose faults in your organizational structure.
Download or read book Diagnosing Organizations written by Michael I. Harrison and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2005 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Professors of research methods across the social sciences will find Diagnosing Organizations, Third Edition an invaluable text for their courses."--Jacket.
Download or read book Organizations written by Jan Achterbergh and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2010-09-02 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: to do to ensure survival, and (2) principles for designing organizational structures in such a way that they can realize the required functions adequately. In the course of their elaboration, we will show that these principles are general – i.e., that they hold for all organizations. 1.5 Conceptual Background To describe organizations as social systems conducting experiments and to present principles for designing an infrastructure supporting the “social experiment,” we use concepts from (organizational) cybernetics, social systems theory, and Aristotle’s ethics. In this book, we hope to show that concepts from these traditions – as introduced by their relevant representatives – can be integrated into a framework supporting our perspective on organizations. To this purpose, we introduce, in each of the following chapters, relevant concepts from an author “belonging” to one of these three traditions and show how these concepts contribute to describing organizations as social experiments (in Part I of the book), to formulating principles for the design of functions and organization structures supporting meaningful survival (Part II), and to formulating principles for the design of organization structures enabling the rich sense of meaningful survival (Part III). Of course, the relevance of cybernetics, social systems theory and Aristotle’s ethics can only be understood in full, after they have been treated in more detail – but based on what we said above, it may already be possible to see why these theories have been chosen as conceptual background.
Download or read book Design and Diagnosis for Sustainable Organizations written by Perez Rios Jose and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-01-11 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How can organizations and their managers face the tremendous complexity of the current environment? How can their compliance with the requirements of sustainability be evaluated? And how can new organizations be structured to ensure their viability? This book addresses these questions in a very practical way, essentially combining systems theory with cybernetics to help managers to evaluate and shape organizations by making accessible the wealth of knowledge contained in these fields. Importantly, it also provides guidelines for its practical application.
Download or read book Diagnosing Organizations written by Michael I. Harrison and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2005 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Professors of research methods across the social sciences will find Diagnosing Organizations, Third Edition an invaluable text for their courses."--Jacket.
Download or read book Diagnosing and Changing Organizational Culture written by Kim S. Cameron and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-01-07 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Diagnosing and Changing Organizational Culture provides a framework, a sense-making tool, a set of systematic steps, and a methodology for helping managers and their organizations carefully analyze and alter their fundamental culture. Authors, Cameron and Quinn focus on the methods and mechanisms that are available to help managers and change agents transform the most fundamental elements of their organizations. The authors also provide instruments to help individuals guide the change process at the most basic level—culture. Diagnosing and Changing Organizational Culture offers a systematic strategy for internal or external change agents to facilitate foundational change that in turn makes it possible to support and supplement other kinds of change initiatives.
Download or read book The Practice of Organizational Diagnosis written by Clayton Alderfer and published by OUP USA. This book was released on 2011 with total page 555 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Practice of Organizational Diagnosis: Theory & Methods presents a new paradigm for examining the intergroup dynamics of organizations by combining the procedures of organizational diagnosis with the theory of embedded intergroup relations. In this volume, Alderfer explains the relevance of the paradigm concept for the present work, shows the importance of intergroup relations in the formative organization studies, reviews extant modes of organizational diagnosis, and demonstrates the limitations of interpersonal and intra-group theories. He then presents the five laws of embedded intergroup relations as a response to the problems associated with the earlier work. After comparing and contrasting alterative group level theories and explaining the several meanings of empirical support, the author describes the empirical basis of the five laws. Based on examining alternative codes of professional conduct and applying the five laws, he provides his prescriptions for the ethical basis of sound diagnostic practice. With the theory and ethical position in place, he then explains procedures for conducting each phase of organizational diagnosis: entry, data collection, data analysis, and feedback. He follows that by reporting the empirical bases for the methods used in the four phases. The volume concludes by describing the courses and educational processes essential for educating people to conduct organizational diagnoses. A recurring theme from beginning to end is that the lawfulness of human behavior in relation to organizations is as applicable to diagnosticians, whether working alone or in teams, as it is to their clients. By addressing theory, method, data, and values, the volume presents a complete paradigm for organizational diagnosis.
Download or read book Improving Diagnosis in Health Care written by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2015-12-29 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Getting the right diagnosis is a key aspect of health care - it provides an explanation of a patient's health problem and informs subsequent health care decisions. The diagnostic process is a complex, collaborative activity that involves clinical reasoning and information gathering to determine a patient's health problem. According to Improving Diagnosis in Health Care, diagnostic errors-inaccurate or delayed diagnoses-persist throughout all settings of care and continue to harm an unacceptable number of patients. It is likely that most people will experience at least one diagnostic error in their lifetime, sometimes with devastating consequences. Diagnostic errors may cause harm to patients by preventing or delaying appropriate treatment, providing unnecessary or harmful treatment, or resulting in psychological or financial repercussions. The committee concluded that improving the diagnostic process is not only possible, but also represents a moral, professional, and public health imperative. Improving Diagnosis in Health Care, a continuation of the landmark Institute of Medicine reports To Err Is Human (2000) and Crossing the Quality Chasm (2001), finds that diagnosis-and, in particular, the occurrence of diagnostic errorsâ€"has been largely unappreciated in efforts to improve the quality and safety of health care. Without a dedicated focus on improving diagnosis, diagnostic errors will likely worsen as the delivery of health care and the diagnostic process continue to increase in complexity. Just as the diagnostic process is a collaborative activity, improving diagnosis will require collaboration and a widespread commitment to change among health care professionals, health care organizations, patients and their families, researchers, and policy makers. The recommendations of Improving Diagnosis in Health Care contribute to the growing momentum for change in this crucial area of health care quality and safety.
Download or read book Diagnosing Organizations written by Michael Harrison and published by SAGE Publications, Incorporated. This book was released on 1987-03 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book introduces the methods, models and processes of organizational diagnosis. It is intended to have a basic knowledge of behavioural science methods and concepts but limited to exposure to the fields of organizational behaviour and organizational development. Organizational diagnosis involves the use of behavioural science knowledge to assess an organization's current state and to help discover routes to its improvement.
Download or read book Analysis for Improving Performance written by Richard A. Swanson and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2009-04 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fundamental premise of Analysis for Improving Performance is that systematic and thorough organizational performance diagnosis and documentation of workplace expertise provide the true basis for improving performance at the organizational, process, team, and worker levels. This is a book about mastering performance improvement and the work, not mastering the worker.
Download or read book Strategic Organizational Diagnosis and Design written by Richard M. Burton and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 471 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A unique set of complementary hands-on tools for learning about and applying a deeper and practical theory for diagnosis and design. This edition has been significantly updated and rewritten to make it easier to read.
Download or read book Organizational Diagnosis and Assessment written by Michael Harrison and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 1998-07-23 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Organizational Diagnosis and Assessment presents sharp-image diagnosis, a distinctive approach to organizational consultation and planned change, that reflects current research and theorizing about organizational change and effectiveness. The authors draw on multiple analytical frames to produce empirically grounded models of sources of ineffectiveness and forces for change, showing how consultants, managers, and applied researchers can break free of unproductive practices and ways of thinking to avoid uncritical adoption of management fads. They offer workable solutions to critical problems and demonstrate ways to meet organizational challenges like market downturns, technological change, and alliances with other organizations. Organizational Diagnosis and Assessment covers diagnosis and assessment of work groups, organizations, and whole systems. This volume develops analytical approaches for problem solving and strategy formation in both for-profit and not-for-profit organizations. Diagnosis of public policy issues, like assessments of the effectiveness of health systems, is also addressed. Many of the models and techniques contribute to assessing the changing nature of the workplace, examining organizational decline and other life-cycle transitions; gendering; change and diversity in organizational culture and in workforce composition; the spread of new forms of work organization, including teams, flat hierarchies, and networks; new uses of information technology; and mergers and alliances among organizations. Organizational Diagnosis and Assessment will be invaluable to advanced students, consultants, and applied behavioral scientists in social sciences, management, social work, organizational and industrial psychology, organizational sociology, nursing, and public administration.
Download or read book How Organizations Work written by Alan P. Brache and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2002-01-04 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A groundbreaking approach to successful performance improvement Almost every executive in business today is faced with the challenge of improving performance, from incremental improvements to wholesale organizational change. Here, a world-renowned expert in organizational improvement asserts that most hard-won changes don't last for long, however, because of the inability to identify the root causes of the problem. How Organizations Work offers a clear, integrated solution to performance improvement via a new "Enterprise Model"-which takes into account all variables that influence performance. Alan Brache provides a comprehensive "physical exam" for checking an organization's vital signs and a 360-degree picture of how organizational dynamics can be harnessed to effect permanent improvements in performance.
Download or read book Stream Analysis written by Jerry I. Porras and published by Prentice Hall. This book was released on 1987 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A member of the AWL OD Series! This book presents a conceptual framework for organizations that will help managers and change- practitioners to better understand organizations. Drawing on that framework, the book describes an approach for diagnosing failings in organizational functioning and for planning a comprehensive set of actions needed to change the organization into a more effective system. This approach, called "Stream Analysis," is explained in detail and examples from three types of organizations are used to illustrate the explanation of the techniques of Stream Analysis.
Download or read book Analysis for Improving Performance written by Richard A. Swanson and published by Berrett-Koehler Publishers. This book was released on 1996 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Analysis for Improving Performance provides the tools for doing the crucial -yet often overlooked-upfront analysis essential to the success of any performance improvement effort. Human resource development expert Richard A. Swanson's step by step method allows program developers and managers to: * Assess an organisation's real business needs and the status of its supporting systems * Analyse necessary worker skills, knowledge and attitudes * Specify performance requirements and evaluation standards * Produce a viable and comprehensive performance improvement design Tools for diagnosing organisations & documenting workplace expertise.
Download or read book Organizational Diagnosis written by M. R. Weisbord and published by Basic Books (AZ). This book was released on 1978-01-22 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Organizational diagnosis; Resource readings in diagnosis.
