Download or read book Understanding Organizations in Complex Emergent and Uncertain Environments written by Anabella Davila and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-06-07 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the concept of complexity and analyses how organizational governance can contribute to environmental sustainability. A common theme in these chapters is that organizations actively engage with their environments. Consequently, organizational responses are partly the result of iterative processes with the environment.
Download or read book Understanding Organizations in Complex Emergent and Uncertain Environments written by Anabella Davila and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-06-07 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the concept of complexity and analyses how organizational governance can contribute to environmental sustainability. A common theme in these chapters is that organizations actively engage with their environments. Consequently, organizational responses are partly the result of iterative processes with the environment.
Download or read book Human Services as Complex Organizations written by Yeheskel Hasenfeld and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2010 with total page 1217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new edition looks at the many recent changes in the arena of Human Sevices Organizations.
Download or read book Comparative Analysis of Complex Organizations Rev Ed written by Amitai Etzioni and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1975-08 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This important book “classifies organizations on the basis of organizational properties and systemically examines variations amount different types of organization” (American Sociological Review). Bringing light to a neglected field, A Comparative Analysis of Complex Organizations presents models for the analysis of various organizational types and examines how they are constructed. Primarily discussing the relationship between compliance and each variable it introduces, this book works as a cornerstone for the comparative analysis of organizations.
Download or read book Radical Decision Making Leading Strategic Change in Complex Organizations written by D. Hruška and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-12-12 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Radical Decision Making offers a controversial new framework to the conventional strategic change management conversation. While many approaches provide a discussion on a singular level, Dr. Hruška blends theory and research of decision making and social interaction to develop a consistent framework of strategic change.
Download or read book Team Effectiveness In Complex Organizations written by Eduardo Salas and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2008-11-20 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past 40 years, there has been a growing trend toward the utilization of teams for accomplishing work in organizations. Project teams, self-managed work teams and top management teams, among others have become a regular element in the corporation or military. This volume is intended to provide an overview of the current state of the art research on team effectiveness.
Download or read book Managing Information in Complex Organizations written by Kevin C. Desouza and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-04-08 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This seminal work presents an effective design for processing information through five stages from data to actionable knowledge in order to influence behavior within organizations. The authors incorporate such concepts as evolution, semiotics, entropy, complexity, emergence, crisis, and chaos theory in an intriguing alternative to crisis management that can be applied to any organization. Their model shows how to evaluate and share information to enable the organization to avoid disaster rather than simply respond to it. Additionally, the text presents the first attempt at a multi-disciplinary view of information processing in organizations by tying associated disciplines to their respective impacts on the information process. Illustrations used in the text include an overlay that demonstrates how the non-use of information between agencies contributed to the 9/11 disaster, and an appendix addresses Organizing for Cyberterrorism.
Download or read book Organizations as Complex Systems written by Maurice Yolles and published by IAP. This book was released on 2006-09-01 with total page 884 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Managing the Complex is an ambitious title - and it would be an audacious one if we were not to begin with a frank admission: to date few to none of us have a skill set which includes managing the complex. We try various things, we write about others, and we wonder about still others. When a tool, perspective, or technique comes along which seems to evoke success, we emulate it probe it and recoil at the all too often admission that it was situation and context which afforded success its opportunity, and not some quality intrinsic to the tool perspective or technique. Indeed, if the study of complexity has done anything for managers, and for those who espouse managerial theory, it is in providing a ‘scientific foundation’ for the notion that context matters. Those who preach abstract ideas have then to reconcile themselves to the notion that situation and embodiment matters. Those who believe in strong causality and determinism are left to wrestle with the role of chance, uncertainty, and chaos. Those who prefer to argue that men move history are confronted with the role of environment and affordances, while those who argue the reverse are left to contend with charisma, irrationality of crowds, and the strange qualities we know as emotions. A series on complex systems has less ambitious goals to contend with than this. Such a series can deal with classifications, and categories, and speak of ‘noise’ as if it were not the central focus of the problem. Managing the complex is about managing ‘noise’ or perhaps we should say it is about ‘dealing with’ ‘accepting’ ‘making room for’ and ‘learning from’ ‘noise’. The articles in this volume and in volumes to come will each be considered as ‘noise’ by some and as ‘gems’ by others, but we hope that practicing managers and academics alike will find plenty of fuel to drive their personal explorations into understanding, and perhaps even managing, the complex.
Download or read book Self Organization of Complex Structures written by Frank Schweitzer and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 1997-07-16 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the past twenty years, a broad spectrum of theories and methods have been developed in physics, chemistry and molecular biology to explain structure formation in complex systems. These methods have been applied to many different fields such as economics, sociology and town planning, and this book reflects the interdisciplinary nature of complexity and self-organisation. The main focus is on the emergence of collective phenomena from individual or microscopic interactions. Presents a wide-ranging overview from fundamental aspects of the evolution of complexity, to applications in biology, ecology, sociology, economics, and urban structure formation.
Download or read book A Comparative Analysis of Complex Organizations written by Amitai Etzioni and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book In the Shadow of Organization written by Robert B. Denhardt and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing upon critical social theorists like Habermas, depth psychologists like Jung, and phenomenologists like Hussert, Denhardts shows how the "ethic of organization" inhibits the individual's search for meaning and then discusses strategies for enhancing the individual's role. he champions independence, expressiveness, and creativity over discipline, regulation, and obedience.
Download or read book Complex Systems and Self organization Modelling written by Cyrille Bertelle and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2008-12-03 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, the outcome of a workshop meeting within ESM 2006, explores the use of emergent computing and self-organization modeling within various applications of complex systems.
Download or read book The Work Environment Bestiary A Field Guide to Workplace Predators written by Abdulhamid Ali and published by Abdulhamid Ali. This book was released on 2023-06-24 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The modern workplace is a melting pot of personalities, talents, and motivations. Among the vast diversity, however, lurk individuals whose actions and attitudes can have a detrimental impact on the work environment. "The Work Environment Bestiary" is a comprehensive guide to identifying and understanding the varied species of negative-impact individuals one may encounter in the professional arena. With ten years of multi-sectoral experience, the author delivers an insightful tour into the wilderness of office politics, personal agendas, and predatory behavior. The book not only offers a taxonomy of these workplace predators but also provides practical advice on coexisting, managing, and neutralizing their adverse effects.
Download or read book On the control of complex industrial organizations written by J.E. van Aken and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is concerned with control issues in complex industrial organizations. The word control is used here in a rather wide sense, including decision making, coordination and planning as well as activities such as the design and implementation of organizational structures or computerized information systems. There are various ways of defining complexity; here we use this term to indicate that the organizations in question consist of many sub organizations which are operationally interdependent but at the same time have a fair degree of independence of control. The control of the interactions between these suborganizations through coordination will be a key issue in this book. The discussion will be confined to industrial organizations; our results are only applicable to a limited extent to other types of organizations such as universities, hospitals or government offices. The main contribution we intend to make in this book is the development of a system oj concepts on control and coordination in industrial organizations which can be used in the design of organizational control structures such as planning systems, information systems or relations between positions or departments. Rather eclectic use has been made of various scientific disCiplines in the development of this conceptual system with some bias towards the use of system theory and cybernetics. The book is intended for professional workers in the field of 'organizational control technology', such as automation and .organization specialists in complex organizations and workers in the related disCiplines at University.
Download or read book Organizations and Performance in a Complex World written by Ramona Orăștean and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-12-14 with total page 427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume highlights current research and developments on organizations and (their) performance against the background of ubiquitous complexity. It investigates some of the challenges and trends dominating the complex world of nowadays and the ways organizations are dealing with them in their continuous search for performance. The papers in the volume cover a series of hot and/or emerging topics (i.e. sustainable development, corporate social responsibility, green marketing, digital revolution, social media, global trade, intangible assets, economic intelligence and innovation). Built on an interdisciplinary perspective and a multi-level approach―global (trade, power, sustainable development), regional (EU, BRICS), national (country-based systems, cultures, policies, practices), industry (airlines, pharma, luxury, retailing, banking, tourism), local (communities, destinations), and organization (entrepreneurship, MNEs, public organizations: national and local)―the volume uniquely addresses issues of high interest for researchers, practitioners and policymakers.
Download or read book Complex Organizations written by Richard H. Hall and published by Dartmouth Publishing Company. This book was released on 1995 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The analysis of complex organizations was largely descriptive until the 1960s. Conceptual and methodological developments then led to comparative analyses of complex organizations. These were comparisons across organizations at that time and are now comparative on a cross-national basis. Just as the comparative analyses were getting up to full speed, analysts began to realize that they were not including a very important element in their analyses. This element was the environment in which organizations were operating. Soon thereafter, other analysts began to point out that there were many activities carried out in and around organizations that were not based on strict rational models and that organizations developed their own systems of meanings. The dominant thrust at present is to try to develop theoretical explanations which work in combination with each other. This book traces these developments with the major articles of the times.
Download or read book Global Energy Transformation written by M. Larsson and published by Springer. This book was released on 2009-06-10 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the next few years political and financial power will move in the direction of individuals, companies and nations that are able to use energy in a more efficient way. This book describes this challenge and presents a way forward by which we may achieve the goal of increased energy efficiency in the different areas that need to change.
