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| Author: | Zuijderhoudt, R. W. L. |
| Title: | Chaos and the dynamics of self-organisation |
| Journal: | Human Systems Management
1990 : VOL. 9:4, p. 225-238 |
| Index terms: | CYBERNETICS ORGANIZATION ORGANIZATIONAL THEORY SYSTEM DYNAMICS CHANGE |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | The relatively new understanding of self-organization, outranks the importance of the classical cybernetic principles on which most of the science of change was based. The processes of change will be regarded in a completely different light. Major similarities appear, whether they occur in individual people, or in groups, organizations or at a social level. A clear distinction is made between developments which pass off gradually and in a controlled manner on the one hand and changes on the other. The latter are discontinuous and entail a temporary period of some chaos. It is understood how patterns are broken up and replaced by new ones, how and why a distribution of tasks and hierarchy arise in a complex process to determine structures of organizations. |
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