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

• Main Author: Lassl, Wolfgang (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: 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...

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.