The Viability of Organizations Vol. 1 Decoding the "DNA" of Organizations /

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Lassl, Wolfgang (Συγγραφέας, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2019.
• Θέματα: Organization.; Planning.; Economic sociology.; School management and organization.; School administration.; Leadership.; Organizational Studies, Economic Sociology.; Administration, Organization and Leadership.; Business Strategy/Leadership.

 Today's complexity, speed, and need for adaptation are putting organizations under stress. Understanding how organizations function and truly come alive has become a critical competency. And yet, organizations still seem to lack a solid understanding of what constitutes meaningful, viable, and effective organizational structures. Using the Viable System Model (VSM) as a framework, this three-volume compendium volume offers readers a new and comprehensive perspective on organizations and how they function beyond the organizational chart. Moreover, it equips readers with a rigorous methodology for analyzing organizations and addressing deep-seated organizational dysfunctions, while also showing them how to redesign their structures and develop better and more tailor-made solutions. This first volume introduces readers to the VSM and its main components. Readers are taken on a journey, allowing them to rediscover all-too-familiar aspects in the life of their organization and to become aware of the critical success factors for its smooth functioning and long-term viability. In turn, volumes 2 and 3 provide an in-depth introduction to diagnosing and designing organizations with the help of the VSM. For academics, this compendium rediscovers a theoretical perspective that can help them understand macro-structural issues; at the same time, for VSM experts and researchers alike, it resolves many open aspects in the VSM framework. . 

 Life, viability, and the art of keeping one's balance -- VSM in fifteen minutes - How does a soccer club function? -- The product - core and foundation of the organization -- "Joining and coordinating forces" - The operational metasystem (part 1) -- "Controlling and Optimizing" - The operational metasystem (part 2) -- "Looking outside" - The strategic metasystem (part 1) -- "Creating orientation and direction" - The strategic metasystem (part 2) -- Decisiveness and closure "- The normative metasystem (part 1) -- "Facing responsibility" - The normative metasystem (part 2) -- The Recursivity of Organization -- "If we knew (and let know), what we know ..." - Organizations as information, transduction, and power systems -- The VSM - does it apply to real-life organizations? -- "The bigger picture" - some of the VSM's key messages -- Not an epilog, but the point to set the sails.