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Social Systems Theory as Theoretical Framework for Human Resource Management - Benediction or Curse?
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Social Systems Theory as Theoretical Framework for Human Resource Management - Benediction or Curse? **
Social systems theory as developed by Niklas Luhmann is an option for the theoretical foundation of Human Resource Management (HRM). After clarifying the advantages of using a grand (social) theory as the basic theoretical perspective, the roots of this social systems theory - the deterministic view of systems as machines, the open systems approach and non-linear systems theory - ar...
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Social Systems Theory as Theoretical Framework for Human Resource Management - Benediction or Curse?
Management Revue
; Social Systems Theory as Theoretical Framework for Human Resource Management - Benediction or Curse? ** Social systems theory as developed by Niklas Luhmann is an option for the theoretical foundation of Human Resource Management (HRM). After clarifying the advantages of using a grand (social)
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(book review)
SOJOURN: Journal of Social Issues in Southeast Asia
; Explorations in Social Theory and Philippine Ethnography. By Raul Pertierra. Diliman, Quezon City: University of the Philippine Press, 1997. 262 pp. This collection of essays is fascinating to read yet difficult to review. I will return to this issue in my concluding paragraph. In four chapters
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Systemic Choices: Nonlinear Dynamics and Practical Management.(Review)
Administrative Science Quarterly
; Gregory A. Daneke. Ann Arbor, Ml: University of Michigan Press, 1999. 277 pp. $42.50. Like the field of medicine, management is often thought of as at least equal parts art and science. Both disciplines attempt to understand the interactions among the various parts, structures, and units, further
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AT THE EDGE OF CHAOS: A NEW PARADIGM FOR SOCIAL WORK?
Journal of Social Work Education
; ... simulating systems, such as those used in the field of system dynamics. An exception is Ann Hartman's popularization of eco-maps. Perhaps one of the most serious criticisms of general systems theory is the problem of assumed equilibrium (Leighninger ... psychological abstracts concerned with chaos theory in only the ...
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Paradox and the form of metamorphosis: systems theory in A Midsummer Night's Dream.
Intertexts
; A growing body of scholarly work is rethinking the shape and evolution of the relations among science, technology, sociology, psychology, philosophy, history, literature, and the arts, through cybernetic terms. (1) What could A Midsummer Night's Dream have to tell us about such things? For one, it
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Systems Theory with Lacan.(comparing psychoanalysis and systems theory)
The Germanic Review
; An occasion is nothing in itself. It is something only in relationship to that which it gives occasion to, and in relationship to this it is strictly speaking nothing. If the occasion was something else than nothing, it would be in a relatively immanent relationship to that which it brings forth,
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Engaging globalization: critical theory and global political change.
Alternatives: Global, Local, Political
; Globalization implies global social and political change. Irrespective of whether one identifies globalization as primarily driven by economics or as a cultural phenomenon occurring in the context of technological change and a transformation of lifestyles, it is now clear that the social sciences
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Autopoiesis and the science of (public) administration: essence, sense and nonsense.
Organization Studies
; Introduction A remarkable number of applications of the concept of 'autopoiesis' have appeared in various fields of the social sciences. The popularity of 'autopoiesis' in the social sciences seems to stem from the work of the sociologist N. Luhmann in the mid-eighties (Luhmann 1984). He used the
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New directions in systems theory: chaos and complexity.
Social Work
; At least since the 1940s, attempts have been made to construct a theory that would address the way in which ordered systems arise and behave. Social work practitioners have adopted such popular theoretical models as general systems theory, developed by Ludwig von Bertalanffy and others, which has
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Masking the need for cultural change: the effects of emotion structuration *.
Organization Studies
; Abstract This study explores the ways in which the expression and management of emotion influence organizational action. The interview sample consisted of 21 volunteer leaders of a non-profit professional association. The triangulated design included interviews, observations, and document analyses.
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