Organizations And Chaos

Author : Ralph D. Stacey
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 9781555424633
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Managing the Unknowable written by Ralph D. Stacey and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 1992-11-11 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's What You Don't Know That Counts Discover the important roles chance and uncertainty play insuccessful strategic planning. In this ingenious work, author RalphD. Stacey shows managers how their companies can benefit from theunexpected developments that impact their business and how they canprepare to creatively leverage the opportunities such developmentspresent. He explains how an appreciation of conflict and teamdialogue can help managers discover and build on the innate energyof their organizations. And he illustrates his theories withreal-world examples from Sony, Kodak, Federal Express and othernoted market innovators.

Author : Thomas H. Lee
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262258366
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chaos and Organization in Health Care written by Thomas H. Lee and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2012-02-10 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two leading physicians' prescription for solving our health care problems: organizing the fragmented system that delivers care. One of the most daunting challenges facing the new U.S. administration is health care reform. The size of the system, the number of stakeholders, and ever-rising costs make the problem seem almost intractable. But in Chaos and Organization in Health Care, two leading physicians offer an optimistic prognosis. In their frontline work as providers, Thomas Lee and James Mongan see the inefficiency, the missed opportunities, and the occasional harm that can result from the current system. The root cause of these problems, they argue, is chaos in the delivery of care. If the problem is chaos, the solution is organization, and in this timely and outspoken book, they offer a plan. In many ways, this chaos is caused by something good: the dramatic progress in medical science—the explosion of medical knowledge and the exponential increase in treatment options. Imposed on a fragmented system of small practices and individual patients with multiple providers, progress results in chaos. Lee and Mongan argue that attacking this chaos is even more important than whether health care is managed by government or controlled by market forces. Some providers are already tightly organized, adapting management principles from business and offering care that is by many measures safer, better, and less costly. Lee and Mongan propose multiple strategies that can be adopted nationwide, including electronic medical records and information systems for sharing knowledge; team-based care, with doctors and other providers working together; and disease management programs to coordinate care for the sickest patients.

Author : H Richar Preismeyer
Publisher : Praeger
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Organizations and Chaos written by H Richar Preismeyer and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1992-11-30 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique book brings chaos theory out of the physics laboratory and into the business boardroom; it demonstrates how chaos theory can be applied to the practical world of business. Priesmeyer takes a fresh look at management in organizations using a unique method of displaying nonlinearity in common business data. He shares a simple procedure for displaying chaotic systems with the reader and the result is an entirely new perspective on marketing, finance, production, and human resource issues. The book is unique because it avoids any difficult mathematics and still delivers very practical applications for managers of all types. In some cases the implications for specific jobs such as that of a retail store manager, a sales manager, and a counselor are discussed in detail. The discussions of free will and visioning will have a real impact on anyone involved in planning. Part One of this book presents the notion of Corporate Chaos Theory and provides the concepts methods used by the author. Chapter 1 introduces the concept of nonlinearity and blends a discussion of chaos in biology into an example in business. Chapter 2 explains the simple method used by Priesmeyer in detail and applies that method to demonstrate organizational limit cycles. Chapter 3 draws on an analogy with cardiology to explain organizational behavior. Part Two consists of four chapters addressing applications in the functional areas of business. Chapters examine marketing, managerial finance, chaos in the production process, and a wide range of human resources issues, including stress. The chapter on production processes addresses new quality approaches and shows the weaknesses of common quality control tools and procedures. The final section of the book addresses decision making. Chapter 8 is directed to anyone involved in forecasting. It also includes an amusing attack on traditional statistics. The following chapters address Strategic Decision Making and provide a preliminary agenda for any company wishing to explore the methods in greater detail. Chapter 11 brings chaos theory down to a common, personal level, and explains the implications for certain specific jobs ranging from sales representatives to marriage counselors. The final chapter readdresses the concept of free will and includes an insightful exercise and conversation.

Author : Daniel J. Svyantek
Publisher : IAP
ISBN 13 : 1648027814
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Crisis, Chaos and Organizations written by Daniel J. Svyantek and published by IAP. This book was released on 2022-01-01 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The COVID-19 pandemic provides an illustration of how chaotic changes to large systems are caused by small, seemingly insignificant environmental events such as the initial case(s) of COVID-19 in China. From this small starting point for the pandemic, there have been (and continue to be) millions of lives lost and trillions of dollars spent trying to alleviate the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. World government and corporate leaders are striving to deal with this pandemic, but uncertainty is felt across the globe. Unprecedented strategies (e.g., the United States government’s multi-trillion-dollar stimulus package (s)) have been used to halt the spread of COVID-19. These small events cascade throughout larger and larger systems leading to unforeseeable consequences. Organizations must experiment and make decisions on how to react. Decisions must be made and implemented to see what the effects of these decisions are. The chapters in this volume provide important insights for all organizations during this time of crisis. The chapters express bottom-up and top-down approaches to a crisis-initiating environmental change by organizations. The chapters provide insight into the way organizations perceive the effect of COVID-19 as 1) a permanent or transitory change in the organization’s environment; and 2) as a crisis or opportunity. Taken together, the chapters provide both scientists and practitioners with a starting point for understanding the impact of COVID-19 on organizational theory and on management practice for readers.

Author : L. Douglas Kiel
Publisher : Jossey-Bass
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Managing Chaos and Complexity in Government written by L. Douglas Kiel and published by Jossey-Bass. This book was released on 1994-09-20 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To keep government operating smoothly, changes in public managementpolicy and strategy usually follow the old rule of change--that itmust evolve in a systematic and incremental fashion. But in today'sunpredictable world of shrinking budgets, demands for betterservice, and greater accountability, playing by the old rules justdoesn't make sense. In this book, L. Douglas Kiel presents a framework that addressesthe new chaotic reality of public management and the need forresponsive change and innovation. By acknowledging the potentialfor positive change and renewal that can arise from uncertainty andinstability, Kiel offers managers a paradigm for transforminggovernment performance. In easy to understand terms, the author offers an overview of theconcepts of chaos theory and the science of complexity and hedemonstrates how public administrators can apply these concepts tocreate a new vision of organizational change. The book presents arange of both traditional and innovative managementtechniquesshaping organizational cultures, flattening hierarchies,and re-engineering work--and evaluates their capacity to alloworganizational systems to respond to change. Written for public administrators and the faculty and students ofpublic management, this book describes the importance of disorder,instability, and change and examines how new chaos theories areapplied to public management. Drawing on data from the author'scase studies, the book is filled with charts, graphs, and practicalcomputer spreadsheet exercises designed to give public managers andstudents of public management hands-on experience to meet thechallenges of organizational change.

Author : Russ Marion
Publisher : SAGE Publications
ISBN 13 : 1452263760
Total Pages : 375 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Edge of Organization written by Russ Marion and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 1999-01-14 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What Newton′s Principia was to his natural science colleagues, Russ Marion′s The Edge of Organization is to today′s social scientists. This book clearly elucidates the arrival of the social sciences at the end of the alley of modernism but then presents us with the tools and ideas to climb out of a dead end, rise above old limitations, and take flight for new horizons bright with promise for advancing both theory and praxis. . . . For social scientists, it is both the most relevant and most easily apprehended treatment to date of the totality of chaos and complexity theory and technique. --Raymond A. Eve, Editor, Chaos, Complexity, and Sociology The Edge of Organization offers a readable, comprehensive, and integrated overview of the new sciences of chaos and complexity. Author Russ Marion describes formal and social organizations from the perspective of chaos and complexity theories. His multidisciplinary approach will appeal to students and scholars across a wide range of social sciences. This book is generously illustrated and includes comprehensive references plus an annotated bibliography of useful books and articles. The Edge of Organization will appeal to students and professionals in sociology, management/ organization studies, management studies, marketing, political science, public administration, and psychology.

Author : H Richar Preismeyer
Publisher : Praeger
ISBN 13 : 0899306306
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Organizations and Chaos written by H Richar Preismeyer and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1992-11-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique book brings chaos theory out of the physics laboratory and into the business boardroom; it demonstrates how chaos theory can be applied to the practical world of business. Priesmeyer takes a fresh look at management in organizations using a unique method of displaying nonlinearity in common business data. He shares a simple procedure for displaying chaotic systems with the reader and the result is an entirely new perspective on marketing, finance, production, and human resource issues. The book is unique because it avoids any difficult mathematics and still delivers very practical applications for managers of all types. In some cases the implications for specific jobs such as that of a retail store manager, a sales manager, and a counselor are discussed in detail. The discussions of free will and visioning will have a real impact on anyone involved in planning. Part One of this book presents the notion of Corporate Chaos Theory and provides the concepts methods used by the author. Chapter 1 introduces the concept of nonlinearity and blends a discussion of chaos in biology into an example in business. Chapter 2 explains the simple method used by Priesmeyer in detail and applies that method to demonstrate organizational limit cycles. Chapter 3 draws on an analogy with cardiology to explain organizational behavior. Part Two consists of four chapters addressing applications in the functional areas of business. Chapters examine marketing, managerial finance, chaos in the production process, and a wide range of human resources issues, including stress. The chapter on production processes addresses new quality approaches and shows the weaknesses of common quality control tools and procedures. The final section of the book addresses decision making. Chapter 8 is directed to anyone involved in forecasting. It also includes an amusing attack on traditional statistics. The following chapters address Strategic Decision Making and provide a preliminary agenda for any company wishing to explore the methods in greater detail. Chapter 11 brings chaos theory down to a common, personal level, and explains the implications for certain specific jobs ranging from sales representatives to marriage counselors. The final chapter readdresses the concept of free will and includes an insightful exercise and conversation.

Author : J. C. R. Rowley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781852522971
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Organize with Chaos written by J. C. R. Rowley and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The authors expose the foundations of current management theory and practice to be over 300 years old. They argue that most of our current assumptions are either only half right or totally obsolete for dealing with today's global business conditions. The authors give the full perspective plus the new tools to get to work quickly.

Author : James Hite. Jr.
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136388079
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Learning in Chaos written by James Hite. Jr. and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-11-03 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explains how change is a functional characteristic of any organization. And, as organizations begin to understand the nature of change, they can still adapt and grow by incorporating change into their structure instead of trying to control it. To help you understand and grow in this ever-changing environment, this book covers four principal areas of thought on change. Chaos, including chaos theory Organizational theory and practice Learning theory and practice The general social environment Executives, managers, and other organizational leaders will find this book invaluable as they refocus the direction of their organizations in order to realize the benefits of learning under changed environmental circumstances.

Author : Kevin C. Desouza
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317465539
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Managing Information in Complex Organizations written by Kevin C. Desouza and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-04-08 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This seminal work presents an effective design for processing information through five stages from data to actionable knowledge in order to influence behavior within organizations. The authors incorporate such concepts as evolution, semiotics, entropy, complexity, emergence, crisis, and chaos theory in an intriguing alternative to crisis management that can be applied to any organization. Their model shows how to evaluate and share information to enable the organization to avoid disaster rather than simply respond to it. Additionally, the text presents the first attempt at a multi-disciplinary view of information processing in organizations by tying associated disciplines to their respective impacts on the information process. Illustrations used in the text include an overlay that demonstrates how the non-use of information between agencies contributed to the 9/11 disaster, and an appendix addresses Organizing for Cyberterrorism.