Gerhard Fink

This book explains psychological, sociopolitical and organisational change in multidisciplinary settings. It shows how advanced techniques of contextual analysis can be applied to complex situations and offers a new cybernetic agency paradigm based on living systems theory. It models, diagnoses, and analyses complex, realworld situations to anticipate patterns of behaviour.

The Changing Organization provides a multidisciplinary approach for studying the management of change under conditions of complexity. Single-discipline approaches frequently miss essential elements that reduce the possibility of coherence within a multi-agency organizational setting. Combining a systems and cybernetic 'living system' perspective, Guo, Yolles, Fink, and Iles offer a new agency paradigm designed to model, diagnose and analyse complex, real-world situations. Its capacity to anticipate patterns of behaviour provides useful means by which the origin of crises can be understood, and resolutions reflected upon. Scholars and graduate students in fields as diverse as management, politics, anthropology and psychology will find numerous applications for this book when considering socio-political and organizational change, and it offers an invaluable guide for consultants who may wish to apply advanced techniques of contextual analysis to real-world situations.

This book explains psychological, sociopolitical and organisational change in multidisciplinary settings. It shows how advanced techniques of contextual analysis can be applied to complex situations and offers a new cybernetic agency paradigm based on living systems theory. It models, diagnoses, and analyses complex, realworld situations to anticipate patterns of behaviour.

The Changing Organization provides a multidisciplinary approach for studying the management of change under conditions of complexity. Single-discipline approaches frequently miss essential elements that reduce the possibility of coherence within a multi-agency organizational setting. Combining a systems and cybernetic 'living system' perspective, Guo, Yolles, Fink, and Iles offer a new agency paradigm designed to model, diagnose and analyse complex, real-world situations. Its capacity to anticipate patterns of behaviour provides useful means by which the origin of crises can be understood, and resolutions reflected upon. Scholars and graduate students in fields as diverse as management, politics, anthropology and psychology will find numerous applications for this book when considering socio-political and organizational change, and it offers an invaluable guide for consultants who may wish to apply advanced techniques of contextual analysis to real-world situations.

German description: Der Consilia-Band wird eingeleitet mit grundsatzlichen Uberlegungen zur Methodik und Didaktik, die gerade fur die Livius-Lekture von ausserordentlicher Wichtigkeit sind. Er enthalt fur alle Texte der Exempla-Ausgabe Sequenzvorschlage und ausfuhrliche Textverlaufsbeschreibungen. Interpretationshinweise vertiefen die Textarbeit und erlautern vor allem die Struktur der Texte, die Handlungs- und Gesprachsfuhrung des Livius sowie seine Erzahltechnik. Alle Arbeitsauftrage aus der Textausgabe werden behandelt; die gestellten Fragen werden im Zusammenhang beantwortet. Tafel- bzw. Folienbilder und grammatische Satzabbildungen erleichtern die Unterrichtsvorbereitung und ermoglichen eine abwechslungsreiche Stundengestaltung. Besonders hervorgehoben seien die aktualisierenden Bezuge, die herausgearbeitet werden, wann immer das fruchtbar erscheint.