Schwaninger Intelligent Organizations

Powerful Models for Systemic Management
1. Auflage 2006
ISBN: 978-3-540-29877-9
Verlag: Springer
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 240 Seiten, eBook

This is not a book about how to run a company. It is about how to look at the world differently. Ultimately, this will help the reader to deal with complexity more effectively. The market today is flooded with books which claim to show paths to higher organizational effectiveness. Most of these recommendations are given as ”recipes for success“ and on pragmatic grounds. This book, however, is targeted at all those who want access to the p- erful models of systemic management in order to improve their skills in coping with complexity. The contents are of interest to people who deal with organizations – as leaders and managers or specialists, or as advanced students. The purpose is to give them conceptual and methodological guidelines by means of which they can Increase the "intelligence" of existing organizations by introducing or substituting a better design; Shape new organizations so that they are "intelligent" from the very start.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Schwaninger, Markus

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Organizational Intelligence in Systemic Terms.- Complexity and Understanding.- Management — A Distributed Function.- Intelligent Organization — A Systemic Framework.- Activities: What the Organization Does.- Structure — Preconditions for Effective Action.- Behavior — The Control of Cognition and Emotion.- Ethos and Identity: Basic Parameters of Organizations.- Time and Organizational Dynamics.- The Framework Revisited.- Outlook: The Way Ahead.