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Emergence in Organisations

By Richard Seel - In this article I offer some reflections on emergence in organisations and suggest seven 'conditions' which might help to facilitate emergent change. I also outline a process—'emergent inquiry'—which can be used to help emergent creativity. (Added: 31-May-2003 Hits: 1207 )

Organizational Ecology Has a Bright Future.

By Organization Studies - Organizational ecology is here to stay. Clearly, Michael Hannan and John Freeman's paradigm-building programme, which started with their classic 1977 article 'The population ecology of organizations' in the American Journal of Sociology, has been successful. By now, at the start of the 21st century, the flourishing organizational ecology population has produced hundreds of studies into the fate of industries and organizations (e.g. Baum 1996). (Added: 10-Dec-2002 Hits: 985 )

The: Organizational Development in a Law Enforcement Environment.

By Barbara French - Today's law enforcement organizations engage new organizational practices that focus on empowerment, teamwork, and participative management. [1] Experts agree that implementation of these designs in law enforcement environments proves challenging. [2] The savvy implementation for organizational change remains a primary issue for law enforcement. (Added: 10-Dec-2002 Hits: 1387 )

Socio Technical Systems

By Quarterman Lee - Basics fo socio technical systems. Includes link to Principles of Socio Technical Systems Design (Added: 8-Mar-2003 Hits: 880 )

Organizational Development

By n a - The concept of the learning organization is that the successful organization must — and does — continually adapt and learn in order to respond to changes in environment and to grow. This raises a range of scholarly and theoretical questions relating to what it means for an organization to learn, and practical questions around what organizations need to do in order to learn and adapt. (Added: 11-Dec-2006 Hits: 1133 )

Complexity and Organizational Development

By Richard Seel - Based on a seminar I ran at South Bank University, this piece is a little out of date now but still offers a reasonable introduction to some of the basic concepts of complexity theory and how they might have some practical application to organisational change and development. (Added: 31-May-2003 Hits: 2707 )

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