Complexity, Organizations and Change

Elizabeth McMillan - Collection Routledge Studies on Complexity in Management

193 pages, parution le 06/01/2004

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Résumé

Complexity Science has seriously challenged long held views in the scientific community about how the world works. These ideas, particularly about the living world, also have radical and profound implications for organizations and society as a whole.

Complexity, Organizations and Change describes and considers ideas and insights from complexity science and their use in organizations, especially in bringing about major organizational change. It is about transforming the way people think about organizations, about their design, the way they operate and most importantly, the people who co-create them.

The book explains the history and development of complexity science in an accessible way for the non-scientific reader, describing key concepts and their use in theory and practice. These concepts are fleshed out with real life examples from organizations in the UK, Europe and the US. These include an in-depth case study of an organization which used complexity principles as part of a strategic change intervention. From this, useful models for introducing a complexity based change process are derived.

This book will appeal to academics, researchers, and advanced students who are interested in complexity science and what it means for strategy, organization and management theory and organizational change.

L'auteur - Elizabeth McMillan

is currently a Research Fellow at the Open University where she co-founded the Complexity Science Research Centre. She is also a co-founder and a Director of ht UK Complexity Society, a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development with many yers experience as a Senior Manager.

Sommaire

Introduction
Introducing Complexity
- Chaos
- Chaos-A brief history
- Chaos-main themes and theories
- Complexity
- Complexity Science-a brief hisotry
- Complexity-main themes and theories
- Conclusion
Organizations and the Long Shadow of Scientific Tradition
- Classical science and the scientific tradition
- The relationship between science and society
- Organizations and the influence of classical science
- Language and metaphorl Conclusion
Le Plus Ca Change... The More it Stays the Same?
- Considering change
- Change and transformation in organizations
- Strategy and strategic change management
- The learning organzation
- In conclusion
Transforming Organizations Using Complexity
- Challenging our perceptions
- Fractals in organizations
- New approaches to strategic change
- The edge of chaos--the edge of innovation
- Using self organization to free up people and energies
- The organization as a complex adaptive system
Changing the Open University:A Case Study
- The Open University
- The New Directions Programme 1993-1996
- An innovative learning process for change
- New Directions as a strategic change model
Complexity in Action
- Understandings of change and the butterfly effect
- Self organization at work
- Self organizing teams at work
- Moving towards the edge of chaos
- Complexity ideas and key players
- Mapping onto complexity
- A model for participative strategic change
Future Possibilities, Future Choices
- The Twelve Principles for encouraging a complexity based change process
- The fractal web
- New perspectives, new possibilities
Appendices
- New Directions
- Diary of events
- Conference issues

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Éditeur(s)	Routledge
Auteur(s)	Elizabeth McMillan
Collection	Routledge Studies on Complexity in Management
Parution	06/01/2004
Nb. de pages	193
Format	16 x 24
Couverture	Relié
Poids	445g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9780415314473
ISBN13	978-0-415-31447-3