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Essay on System Thinking and Organizational Performance Project
Literature Review
Systems thinking are a concept which clearly derives very directly from our intuitive or casual knowledge of organisms: the concept of a whole entity which can adapt and survive, within limits, in a changing environment. This notion of 'the adaptive whole' is the central image in systems thinking and the systems movement can be regarded as the attempt to explore the usefulness of this particular concept in many different fields (Bens C. K., 1986).
Effective systems thinking
Effective System thinking requires leaders, managers, and employees to think strategically about all aspects of organizational life, which include the organization's role in achieving its business goals and objectives, its mission and strategy, and its structure, culture, and managerial practices. Thus, examining the organizational system to determine connections, influences, pressures, and dysfunctions among the integrated parts of the organization proves helpful. Additionally, system thinking requires reflectivity on the part of leaders, managers, and employees for the purpose of improving understanding and action.
Systems ideas emerged as a generalization of ideas about organisms which were developed within biology in the first half of the twentieth century. Where classical physics developed its core conceptualizations in the Newtonian revolution of the seventeenth century (to be modified by Einsteinian physics in the twentieth) and chemistry developed its core concepts ('elements', 'compounds', etc.) in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, biology was later in emerging as a science with an accepted conceptual framework (Boschken H. L., 1994). As the new science of biology was developed, its concern with living things led to many controversies over the nature of the living, and hence over the proper concerns of the new discipline.
The difference between system thinking and performance measurement
System thinking is a framework for identifying interrelationships and patterns, for seeing the whole rather than just the parts....
