Organizational Transformation and Learning - Espejo, Raúl / Schuhmann, Werner / Schwaninger, Markus / Bilello, Ubaldo
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This book helps managers understand and manage change in all kinds of organizations and offers a new approach for coping with the increasing complexity of their work. It offers a theoretical and practical reflection of the work carried out by a company specializing in organizational cybernetics.
Complexity is the core issue of organizational concern for the age we have entered, not just for the year 2000 but for the new century we are about to enter. The purpose of this book is showing, both theoretically and practically, how organizational and managerial cybernetics can contribute to this…mehr

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This book helps managers understand and manage change in all kinds of organizations and offers a new approach for coping with the increasing complexity of their work. It offers a theoretical and practical reflection of the work carried out by a company specializing in organizational cybernetics.
Complexity is the core issue of organizational concern for the age we have entered, not just for the year 2000 but for the new century we are about to enter. The purpose of this book is showing, both theoretically and practically, how organizational and managerial cybernetics can contribute to this core issue. The authors offer a holistic view of both organizations and individual actions. They provide a framework to relate and organize the myriad activities natural to today's business. It offers a framework to account for organizational complexity, align strategic processes and organization structure and information systems. It also develops further the Viable System Model as a framework for organizational diagnosis and design.

ISSUES FOR TODAY'S ORGANIZATIONS.
Organization Structure.
Transformation.
A LANGUAGE FOR EFFECTIVE ACTION IN ORGANIZATIONS.
Basic Notions.
Effective Action in an Organizational Context.
Giving Requisite Variety to Management: A Discussion Based on the Viable System Model.
Organizational Learning.
The Cybernetics of Individual and Organizational Learning.
RECURSIVE MANAGEMENT.
Enabling Systemic Management.
Primary Processes and Information Management.
Management and Meta-Management.
Conclusion.
Bibliography.
Index.
Autorenporträt
Markus Schwaninger ist ein österreichischer Ökonom. Er ist emeritierter Titularprofessor für Betriebswirtschaftslehre mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der Managementlehre an der Universität St. Gallen. Schwaninger promovierte 1979 an der Universität Innsbruck. Anschließend arbeitete er am Managementzentrum St. Gallen und am Institut für Betriebswirtschaft der Universität St. Gallen. Sein hauptsächliches Forschungsinteresse liegt in den Bereichen Organisationsintelligenz, Managementkybernetik und System Dynamics.