Systems approaches to organisational communication
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This document discusses systems approaches to organizational communication. It covers systems in life sciences and biology, how systems theory relates to communication and organizations, goals, feedback, and contingency. It also discusses Peter Senge's work on learning organizations, Karl Weick's sense-making theory, and some limitations of systems approaches.
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Systems approaches to organisational communication
- 1. Systems Approaches to Organisational Communication
- 2. Systems in the Life Sciences Space and time are . . . dynamic quantities: when a body moves, or a force acts, it affects the curvature of space and time — and in turn the structure of space-time affects the way in which bodies move and forces act. Space and time not only affect but also are affected by everything that happens in the universe. (Hawking, 1988, p. 33)
- 3. Biology and General Systems Theory
- 4. Systems theory, communication & Organisations
- 5. Goals | Feedback | Contingency
- 8. Limitations