Redesigning the Future: a Systems Approach to Societal Problems
Author : Russell Lincoln Ackoff
Publisher : Wiley-Interscience
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 37,48 MB
Release : 1974
Category : Social Science
ISBN :
Redesigning Society
Author : Russell Lincoln Ackoff
Publisher : Stanford Business Books
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 37,58 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
Book Description
Health care, education, welfare, law the perceived success or failure of these social institutions is constantly being debated in the public arena. In this new book Ackoff and Rovin examine a variety of these issues and use systems theory to develop solutions for many of the problems society currently faces."
The Systems Approach to Societal Problems
Author : Stephen E. Stephanou
Publisher :
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 46,49 MB
Release : 1982
Category : Social policy
ISBN : 9780936496030
Book Description
Handbook of Information Resource Management
Author : Jack Rabin
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 596 pages
File Size : 48,17 MB
Release : 1987-09-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780824777395
Book Description
Public Policy Analysis
Author : William N. Dunn
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 708 pages
File Size : 23,29 MB
Release : 2017-08-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1351721682
Book Description
Public Policy Analysis, the most widely cited book on the subject, provides students with a comprehensive methodology of policy analysis. It starts from the premise that policy analysis is an applied social science discipline designed for solving practical problems facing public and nonprofit organizations. This thoroughly revised sixth edition contains a number of important updates: Each chapter includes an all-new "big ideas" case study in policy analysis to stimulate student interest in timely and important problems. The dedicated chapter on evidence-based policy and the role of field experiments has been thoroughly rewritten and expanded. New sections on important developments in the field have been added, including using scientific evidence in public policymaking, systematic reviews, meta-analyses, and "big data." Data sets to apply analytical techniques are included online as IBM SPSS 23.0 files and are convertible to Excel, Stata, and R statistical software programs to suit a variety of course needs and teaching styles. All-new PowerPoint slides are included to make instructor preparation easier than ever before. Designed to prepare students from a variety of academic backgrounds to conduct policy analysis on their own, without requiring a background in microeconomics, Public Policy Analysis, Sixth Edition helps students develop the practical skills needed to communicate findings through memos, position papers, and other forms of structured analytical writing. The text engages students by challenging them to critically analyze the arguments of policy practitioners as well as political scientists, economists, and political philosophers.
Coach and Couch 2nd edition
Author : Manfred F.R. Kets de Vries
Publisher : Springer
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 29,97 MB
Release : 2015-11-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1137561610
Book Description
Professor Manfred Kets de Vries and his colleagues have helped thousands of executives to increase their effectiveness in dealing with colleagues and clients, and to refocus their own professional and personal aspirations. This book is a volume of essays on leadership development topics written by academics, coaches, and change consultants. It explores how extraordinary leaders and thriving organizations are created by sharing research methodologies and insights, and by describing intervention and change techniques. Drawing upon substantial research, this book presents the essential leadership models and equips practitioners with tools for developing executive coaches and working with business leaders. This second edition includes new chapters on executive stress and coaching across the gender divide.
Collaborative Environmental Governance Frameworks
Author : Timothy Gieseke
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 29,90 MB
Release : 2019-08-06
Category : Law
ISBN : 0429000448
Book Description
This book takes a practical approach to understanding and describing collaborative governance for resolving environmental problems. It introduces a new collaborative governance assessment model and recognizes that collaborations are a natural result of organizations converging around complex issues. Rather than identifying actors by their type of organization, the actors are identified by the type of role they play. This approach is aligned with how individuals and organizations interact in practice, and their dependance on collaborations to solve emerging environmental problems. The book discusses real cases with governance issues and creates new frameworks for collaborations. Features: Addresses communities at all levels and scales that are gravitating toward collaborations to solve their environmental issues. Prepares and enables individuals to participate in collaborative governance and design collaborative governance frameworks. Introduces the first simplified and standardized model to assess governance using governance actors and styles. Explains governance in simple terms and builds governance frameworks from the individual’s perspective; the smallest, viable unit of governance in a collaboration. Describes "tools of convergence" for collaborative leaders to organize and align activities to create shared-governance outcomes and outputs.
The Social Engagement of Social Science, Volume 3
Author : Eric Trist
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 731 pages
File Size : 10,65 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0812281942
Book Description
Volume three completes this set, which also presents socio- psychological (volume one) and socio-technical (volume two) perspectives. Thirty-four articles focus on nonhierarchical forms of organization facilitating interorganizational relations in complex and rapidly changing environments. The collection serves as a guide to institution building for the future. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
The Social Engagement of Social Science, a Tavistock Anthology, Volume 3
Author : Eric Trist
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 731 pages
File Size : 31,53 MB
Release : 2016-01-14
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 1512819069
Book Description
World War II brought together a group of psychiatrists and clinical and social psychologists in the British Army who developed a number of radical, action-oriented organizational innovations in social psychiatry. They became known as the "Tavistock Group," since the core members had been at the pre-war Tavistock Clinic. At the post-war Tavistock Institute of Human Relations, they developed a pioneering mode of relating theory and practice, called in these volumes "The Social Engagement of Social Science." Previous volumes presented two of three interdependent perspectives: the socio-psychological (Volume I, 1990) and the socio-technical (Volume II, 1993). The latest volume, on the socio-ecological perspective, completes the set. The socio-ecological perspective is concerned with the coevolution of systems and their environments. It considers the broader environment which shapes not only the task environments of socio-technical organizations but the institutional and cultural environment that confronts the individual. Volume III focuses on nonhierarchical forms of organization facilitating inter-organizational relations in complex and rapidly changing environments. This perspective provides a guide to institution building for the future.
Methods and Techniques in Urban Engineering
Author : Armando Carlos De Pina Filho
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 26,42 MB
Release : 2010-05-01
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 953307096X
Book Description
A series of urban problems such as dwelling deficit, infrastructure problems, inefficient services, environmental pollution, etc. can be observed in many countries. Urban Engineering searches solutions for these problems using a conjoined system of planning, management and technology. A great deal of research is devoted to application of instruments, methodologies and tools for monitoring and acquisition of data, based on the factual experience and computational modeling. The objective of the book was to present works related to urban automation, geographic information systems (GIS), analysis, monitoring and management of urban noise, floods and transports, information technology applied to the cities, tools for urban simulation, social monitoring and control of urban policies, sustainability, etc., demonstrating methods and techniques applied in Urban Engineering. Considering all the interesting information presented, the book can offer some aid in creating new research, as well as incite the interest of people for this area of study, since Urban Engineering is fundamental for city development.
