Title :
An operable and systemic approach to designing organizations
Author :
Yang, Dong-Sheng ; Liu, Zhong ; Zhang, Wei-Ming ; CHEN, Wen-Wei
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Manage. Sci. & Eng., Nat. Univ. of Defense Technol., China
Abstract :
In this paper, we present a hierarchy hypothesis (HH) for designing organizations, and advance an operable and systemic approach based on HH to design organizations, which support the viable systems model and the methods of a three-phase iterative organizational design process and integrate the recursion and balance principle viable system model.
Keywords :
computer aided production planning; decision support systems; hierarchical systems; resource allocation; asset clustering; hierarchy hypothesis; iterative organization design; operable systemic approach; qualitative reasoning; task-resource allocation; viable systems model; Agile manufacturing; Asset management; Cybernetics; Delta modulation; Electronic mail; Engineering management; Iterative methods; Predictive models; Process design; Technology management;
Conference_Titel :
Machine Learning and Cybernetics, 2002. Proceedings. 2002 International Conference on
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-7508-4
DOI :
10.1109/ICMLC.2002.1174405
