systems of organisation

Question 1

how is the nature of organisation used in two major ways?

Answer 1

as a noun and as a verb

Question 2

what is meant by the noun organisation?

Answer 2

institutional perspective
describes an organisation in which exists independently of its members
informs and contains members
social structures hace a life over members

Question 3

what is meant by the verb organisation?

Answer 3

action perspective
organisation is created through repeated continuing action of its members
action continually reproduces organisation
does not exists independently of members

Question 4

what is the major difference between the action and institutional perspective?

Answer 4

action - does not exist independently of members

inst - social structure has a life over members

Question 5

what is meant by systematics?

how is it related to organisation?

Answer 5

system thinking
study of systems

organisation can be thought of as a system

Question 6

what is a system?

Answer 6

a set of interrelated and interdependent elements that exist for some purpose

Question 7

what are the features of a system?

Answer 7

holism 
interaction 
emergence 
identity 
purpose

Question 8

what is meant by feature holism?

Answer 8

the whole is more important than the parts

organisation is thought of as a whole

Question 9

what is meant by feature interaction?

Answer 9

systems have continuous interaction of parts in order to work

Question 10

what is meant by feature emergence?

Answer 10

certain properties of a system emerge through the interaction of different parts

Question 11

what is meant by the feature of identity?

Answer 11

should be possible to set a boundary around the system in order to separate in form others

Question 12

what is meant by the feature of purpose?

Answer 12

all systems are teological

they are organise to do or achieve something

Question 13

what is emanate by teological?

Answer 13

purposeful

Question 14

what is meant by organisation through emergence?

Answer 14

organisation is best seen as a system that emerges through action
e.g a river emerges through the repeated action of flowing water

Question 15

how is continuous action created in organisation?

Answer 15

people enact roles which create repeated action creating a structure of a system

Question 16

what is meant by negentropy?

Answer 16

patterned order

Question 17

what is entropy?

Answer 17

no order

Question 18

how is negentropy linked o organisation?

Answer 18

organisation is patterned order

it needs energy through work in order to achieve pattered order

Question 19

why might it be better to ue the action perspective in terms of patterns?

Answer 19

that members organise themselves in order to get jobs done effectively
in an order

Question 20

what is meant by a pattern?

Answer 20

anything which repeats across situations

Question 21

what is meant by patterns or organisation?

Answer 21

actors taking rpeeotive action across time and space

Question 22

what does any pattern of organisation consist of?

Answer 22

• action
• actor
• sequence
• location

Question 23

what are ties of actions?

Answer 23

articulation
coordination
communication

Question 24

what are actors?

Answer 24

anything that can act

can be human or machine

Question 25

how is data structure an actor?

Answer 25

it can proscribe or prescribe

Question 26

what is meant by patterns of organisation in time and location?

Answer 26

action takes place at different places and at different times

Question 27

what is the advantage of system thinking?

Answer 27

a way of understanding complex problems (analyse) and see how to change (design)

Question 28

how is control in a system achieved?

Answer 28

through feedback

Question 29

what is emanate by feedback?

Answer 29

``` an outcome balancing feedback (regulate) reinforcing feedback (growth) ```

Question 30

what are the three interrelated actions important to pattern of organisation

Answer 30

communication coordination articulation

Question 31

what is meant by communication?

Answer 31

ways actors inform for purpose of coordinating | what is happeneidng

Question 32

what is meant by coordinating?

Answer 32

ways in which informed actors achieved coordinations nin the acheievedmnet of goals q

Question 33

what is meant by articulation?

Answer 33

ways in which substance is given form for the purpose of informing actors selfing a message

Question 34

what is meant by sequencing action?

Answer 34

action takes place at a certain place and time | events take place before and after and in a spate order