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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: Viability of Organizations Vol. 1
    sub title: Decoding the "DNA" of Organizations
  name:
    name part: Lassl, Wolfgang.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
    role:
      role term: aut
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      role term: http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2019
    edition: 1st ed. 2019.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XXII, 234 p. 97 illus., 95 illus. in color. online resource.
  abstract: 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. .
  table of contents: 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.
  note: by Wolfgang Lassl.
  subject:
    topic: Organization
  subject:
    topic: Planning
  subject:
    topic: Economic sociology
  subject:
    topic: School management and organization
  subject:
    topic: School administration
  subject:
    topic: Leadership
  subject:
    topic: Organization
  subject:
    topic: Organizational Studies, Economic Sociology
  subject:
    topic: Administration, Organization and Leadership
  subject:
    topic: Business Strategy/Leadership
  classification: HD28-70
  classification: 658.1
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      title: Springer eBooks
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