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Knowledge Management and Organisational Learning in Business Organisations and Biological Systems (Paperback)
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Knowledge Management and Organisational Learning in Business Organisations and Biological Systems (Paperback)
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Diploma Thesis from the year 2000 in the subject Business economics
- Didactics, Economic Pedagogy, grade: 1, -, language: English,
abstract: Writers on management and organisational excellence today
provide a set of prescriptions which they argue will lead to
healthy, well functioning firms. Within the management sciences
there has been a growing tendency to view organisations as complex
systems, that is, to describe them as organisms. Increasingly the
hard sciences are being used to describe and analyse organisations.
In the field of creative problem solving several systems authors
have advocated the use of metaphors to describe certain aspects of
organisations. In reviewing much of today's management literature
we are exhorted to use benchmarks, for a variety of management
tasks. In reviewing organisational excellence we are duty bound to
find a measure that will be relevant tomorrow as well as today.
Conjoining these current themes in management, this thesis seeks to
review what we know about the effective collective functioning of
selected species and to compare these natural systems with
organisational systems. We posit the question: Can an understanding
of the functioning of natural systems help us to understand how
organisations function. If so, what can we learn about the
effective functioning of organisations. Firstly we will review
common management theories, with a focus on organisational learning
and knowledge management. Secondly we will look at three natural
organisations: Honey bees, leaf-cutter ants and the African locust.
We want to find out how these organisations function, and
specifically search for knowledge management and organisational
learning within these biological systems. Then we will try to link
management theories with our findings in natural organisations.
This approach will finally deliver some interesting hypothesis
about knowledge management and organisational learning - both valid
for human and natural organisations.
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