Intelligent Organizations

Powerful Models for Systemic Management
2. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-3-642-09890-1
Verlag: Springer

Buch, Englisch, 229 Seiten, Previously published in hardcover, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 382 g

This book offers an innovative approach for overcoming the crisis of management in the face of complexity. The text fully explores this powerful tool, which is grounded in organizational cybernetics and systems dynamics. The book will serve as a sourcebook for improvement in many types of organizations, private or public, non-profit, large or small. The approach teaches managers and advanced students of management cope with organizational complexity in an effective way.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Schwaninger, Markus

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Organisationstheorie, Organisationssoziologie, Organisationspsychologie
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Management Unternehmensführung
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Management Unternehmensorganisation & Entwicklungsstrategien

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.- Behaviour — The Control of Cognition and Emotion.- Ethos and Identity: Basic Parameters of Organizations.- Time and Organizational Dynamics.- The Framework Revisited.- Outlook: The Way Ahead.