Design and diagnosis for sustainable organizations: the viable system method

How can organizations and their managers face the tremendous complexity of the current environment? How can their compliance with the requirements of sustainability be evaluated? And how can new organizations be structured to ensure their viability? This book addresses these questions in a very practical way, essentially combining systems theory with cybernetics to help managers to evaluate and shape organizations by making accessible the wealth of knowledge contained in these fields. Importantly, it also provides guidelines for its practical application. Find out if your organization is prepared to survive. Learn in a short time how to diagnose the health of your company. Find out why your organization does not meet your expectations. Why many firms and organizations are unable to survive the current systemic crisis. INDICE: Systems Thinking, Organisational Cybernetics and the Viable SystemModel. Diagnosis and Design of Organisations. Pathologies of Organisations. Software for VSM application. Team Syntegrity.

• ISBN: 978-3-642-22317-4
• Editorial: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 250
• Fecha Publicación: 31/10/2011
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés