Systems Approaches to Management

by Michael C. Jackson

2020-07-22 23:53:26

Systems Thinking is a new paradigm set to revolutionize management practice in the 21st century.Systems Approaches to Managementis the most comprehensive guide available to the application of this new paradigm in the field of management. It,Traces th... Read more
Systems Thinking is a new paradigm set to revolutionize management practice in the 21st century.Systems Approaches to Managementis the most comprehensive guide available to the application of this new paradigm in the field of management. It,
  • Traces the emergence of holistic thinking in disciplines such as biology, control engineering, sociology and the natural sciences
  • Details and provides a critique, based upon social theory, of the range of systems approaches, methodologies, models and methods
  • Offers numerous case studies to illustrate systems thinking applied to management
  • Introduces critical systems thinking'' as a coherent framework that brings unity to the diversity of different systems approaches and advises managers, consultants, scholars and students on their use
  • Provides an accessible source of inspiration for managers, management consultants, scholars and students £/LIST£ Covers chaos and complexity theory, the learning organization, system dynamics, living systems theory, soft systems methodology, interactive management, interactive planning, total systems intervention, autopoiesis, management cybernetics, the viable system model, operations research (hard and soft), systems analysis, systems engineering, general system theory, sociotechnical systems thinking, the fifth discipline, social systems design, team syntegrity, postmodern systems thinking, critical systems thinking, and much more.
    Considers the work of Ackoff, Banathy, Beer, Capra, Checkland, Churchman, Eden, Emery, Flood, Forrester, Friend, Freire, Jackson, Jantsch, Linstone, Luhmann, Mason, Maturana, Miller, Mitroff, Prigonine, Rosenhead, Senge, Stacey, Trist, Ulrich, Varela, Vickers, von Bertalanffy, Warfield, Wheatley, Wiener, and many more. Less
  • Book Details

    File size10.92x8.18x1.05inche
    Print pages452
    PublisherSpringer
    Publication date November 1, 2000
    ISBN9780306465062

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