Intelligent Organizations Powerful Models for Systemic Management /

• Main Author: Schwaninger, Markus. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2009.
• Subjects: Economics.; Industrial management.; Business planning.; Economics/Management Science.; Organization/Planning.; Management/Business for Professionals.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-85162-2

The systems approach in which this work is grounded enables the development of the new kind of intelligent organizations so urgently needed. Powerful models, based on organizational cybernetics and system dynamics, are presented in a way that lets the reader immediately apply them in practice. This...

Table of Contents:

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