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The viability of organizations. Vol. 1, Decoding the "DNA" of organizations / Wolfgang Lassl.

Lassl, Wolfgang, author.
2019
HD58.9 .L37 2019
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Title
The viability of organizations. Vol. 1, Decoding the "DNA" of organizations / Wolfgang Lassl.
Author
Lassl, Wolfgang, author.
ISBN
9783030120146 (electronic book)
3030120147 (electronic book)
3030120139
9783030120139
Published
Cham, Switzerland : Springer, [2019]
Language
English
Description
1 online resource
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HD58.9 .L37 2019
Dewey Decimal Classification
658.4
Summary
Todays 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.
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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, 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.

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