PROPERTIES
"The whole is greater than the sum of its parts."
What is Holism?
Concept of how systems are organized like "nesting dolls," with subsystems inside larger supersystems.
What is Hierarchical Ordering?
Fill in the blank
Input-Throughput-____
What is OUTPUT?
In communication networks, individuals or organizational units are referred to as these.
What are nodes?
The primary tool organizational members use to interpret events and create shared meaning.
What is communication?
Encourages change to deviation to help system evolve or try new things.
What is Equifinality?
Boundaries act as a "Filter" allowing info/materials to flow.
What is Permeability?
It is anything the system takes in from its environment. This can be information, materials, or resources.
What is INPUT?
This term refers to the communication relationships that connect nodes in a network.
What are links?
Members interact to make sense of uncertain environments.
What is sensemaking?
Anti-Holistic mindset where departments refuse to share information.
What is Silo Mentality?
The "Ripple Effect"—one part’s breakdown affects all others.
What is Interdependence?
What is the output of a system?
A. Resources entering the system
B. The system’s environment
C. The final result sent out
D. The system boundary
What is letter C?
Connects separate groups.
What is a bridge?
Organizing is a process of reducing uncertainty.
What is equivocality?
Famous scientist who described negative entropy as a system's ability to "suck orderliness" from its environment.
Who is Erwin Schrödinger?
Boundaries act as a "Filter" allowing info/materials to flow.
What is Permeability?
Feedback mainly affects which stage of the system?
What is THROUGHPUT?
Links groups without belonging to them.
What is a liaison?
Weick’s Three Stages of Organizing.
What are enactment, selection, and retention?
"Only variety can absorb variety."
What is Ashby's Law?
Smaller departments or workgroups (ex. Hospitals: ER, Lab)
What is a Subsystem?
A system cannot function properly without:
A. Closed boundaries
B. Feedback and exchange
C. Output only
D. Throughput only
What is letter B?
Has no communication ties.
What is an isolate?
The "building blocks" used to reduce uncertainty.
What are cycles of interaction?