scholarly journals Ideology in Vicarious Learning–Related Communication

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juha-Antti Lamberg ◽  
Jukka Luoma
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Development ◽  
Economic Organization ◽  
Vicarious Learning ◽  
Historical Evidence ◽  
Organizational Improvement ◽  
The Future

Organizations often learn vicariously by observing what other organizations do. Our study examines vicarious learning–related communication through which individuals share their observations with other organizational members. Most students and members of present-day organizations would expect that this communication is driven by a prodevelopment logic—that communication serves the purpose of organizational improvement and competitiveness. Our unique historical evidence on learning-related communication over multiple decades shows that the subjective and collective attitude toward prodevelopment communication may be ideologically conditioned. Prodevelopment communication is the norm in capitalist organizations, but competing ideologies may emphasize other goals higher than organizational development. Consequently, increasing challenges to capitalism as the ideological basis of economic organization can have deep impacts on how organizations learn and produce innovations in the future.

scholarly journals The Future of ASTIN

1982 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 75-80 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hans Bühlmann
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Method ◽  
Mortality Data ◽  
Historical Evidence ◽  
The Past ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The Future ◽  
Mortality Table ◽  
Intelligent Approach ◽  
Statistical Results

My assistants at ETH have a wall calendar—not with the usual pictures of Swiss mountains, hills and lakes, but with “quotations for intelligent people”. Recently, the quotation for the week read as follows: “Even the future is no longer what it used to be in the past”.Observe that also in this supposedly intelligent approach it seems impossible to speak about the future without referring to the past. I shall not deviate from this rule. Of course, my task is greatly simplified by the fact that Paul Johansen has just entertained you in a charming way about the past 25 years of ASTIN and the earlier endeavors leading to the foundation of ASTIN.In the year 1693, Edmond Halley constructed the first mortality table based on mortality data from Breslau which he had obtained through the intervention of Leibniz. This can be regarded as the starting point of actuarial science. In my opinion it can however not be considered as the starting point of the actuarial profession. Why? Yes, Halley's table was used for some eighty years because subsequent information coincided with his estimate of mortality. Yes, De Moivre, in his classic textbook of 1725, performed ingenious calculations of annuities, based on the same table. Yes, Süssmilch published the first basic and substantial work of demography in 1741 but—here comes the big but—no government (and nobody else sold annuity insurance at that time) made use of the available scientific method to calculate annuities. Perhaps the first statistical results to be taken seriously were the Northampton tables of 1780, devised by Richard Price. Incidentally, this date coincides reasonably well with the first valuation by William Morgan in 1786. Hence, I think that either of these dates may be taken, at the earliest, as the start of the actuarial profession, a profession being by definition a dedicated group of people accepted by society for the performance of a particular skill. Let me make my point explicit: We have historical evidence of the existence of actuarial science about 90 years prior to the emergence of the actuarial profession.

Understanding and Assessing Organizational Social Context (OSC)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anthony L. Hemmelgarn ◽  
Charles Glisson
Keyword(s):  
Social Context ◽  
Organizational Development ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Service Organizations ◽  
Organizational Improvement ◽  
Organizational Assessment ◽  
Case Examples ◽  
Social Service Organizations ◽  
Worker Attitudes ◽  
Multiple Dimensions

This chapter describes the OSC measurement system. The OSC measure assesses culture, climate, and worker attitudes as the key components of OSC. Including multiple dimensions of culture and climate, the OSC measure provides a personality profile of organizations based on the responses of direct service providers within the work units that are assessed. Empirically derived, the dimensions and resulting measurement profiles allow users to assess the health of their organization’s social context using national norms for behavioral health and social service organizations. The authors explain the use of the OSC measure in their ARC organizational improvement process, and they integrate research and case examples to illustrate how the OSC measure can be applied for organizational assessment and change efforts. These efforts include using social context profiles to identify targets for change, action plans, and objectives to achieve within organizational development efforts.

The Restructuring of Jobs for the Year 2000

1997 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 43-59 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph B. Mosca
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Development ◽  
Human Dimension ◽  
The Future ◽  
Year 2000

Organizations and employees can plan on one certainty, “Change”. Change is one result of organizational development, and it will continue in the future. In the background of these factors are the corporation changes, and the human dimension which managers and society must contend with. As changes in the new direction of the corporation are planned, employees will have to plan their direction as well. The focus of this paper is on how jobs will be restructured in the year 2000. This restructuring of the workforce is a result of new organizational development and job changes. A discussion on the causes of these changes are followed by an illustration of what the restructured jobs will consist of, and how to adapt.

Internal Order and Peace: An Integrated Europe in World Affairs

1974 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 96-112
Author(s):  
Donald J. Puchala
Keyword(s):  
International System ◽  
Economic Organization ◽  
Theoretical Knowledge ◽  
Nation State ◽  
World Peace ◽  
External Relations ◽  
Practical Concern ◽  
The Future ◽  
Internal Order

IF POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC ORGANIZATION BEYOND THE NATION-state is to prevail in the future, as it well might, what is to be the nature of relations between and among supranational units or regional blocs? Will such relations buttress or endanger world peace? To such broad questions there are no answers. But to a derivative set of more specific questions, which probe the same kinds of concerns, we can attempt answers. We can ask, and hope to discover, for example, how newly integrated units behave in their external relations, and we can also ask why they behave as they do. From this we can postulate a world of super-units successively entering the international system, and then perhaps say something about the impacts that such entrances are likely to make. While an exercise of this nature could be carried out simply for the sake of expanding theoretical knowledge, it could also be put to very practical and immediate use in lending perspective on the external relations of the European Communities and the impacts of the EEC on world affairs. This last, and most practical concern, is the object of this paper.

scholarly journals Key factors of development of the industrial enterprises in the conditions of the industry 4.0

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 11-19
Author(s):  
T. O. Tolstykh ◽  
L. A. Gamidullayeva ◽  
E. V. Shkarupeta
Keyword(s):  
Public Relations ◽  
Organizational Development ◽  
Industry 4.0 ◽  
Digital Economy ◽  
Digital Products ◽  
Industrial Enterprises ◽  
Industrial Companies ◽  
Digital Ecosystem ◽  
The Future ◽  
Innovative Products

he digital economy actively develops in Russia: according to the report of World Economic Forum, on indicators of availability, use and influence of appropriate technologies on economy and the public relations our country treats 30% of the most advanced countries. The programs of digital economy adopted in the different countries put one of key indicators digitalization of traditional branches. If to speak about manufacturing sectors, then their digitalization is defined substantially by the industrial Internet and depth of his use. Many players – both the industrial companies, and telecommunication are interested in development and introduction of these technologies, and suppliers of the equipment, are created special associations and associations. The purpose of this article is the description of models and algorithms of processes of digitalization of key information (intra-corporate and external) activity of the industrial enterprise; development of methods, technologies and analysis algorithms of «big data» on the basis of technology of the industry 4.0 for management of the industrial enterprises for development of their business. As the frontier of organizational development of processes of digital transformation the organization of the laboratory allowing to carry out the analysis, assessment and engineering of the existing processes at the industrial enterprises from positions of digitalization, productivity, design orientation and efficiency is considered. The analysis of international and Russian experience of creation of similar laboratories within a national innovative digital ecosystem is carried out. The digital laboratory helps to accelerate process of creation of new innovative products and services for growth of business and the successful competition on Russian and the world markets: possibly not only to present, but also to simulate the future of business in 10–20 years: to create prototypes of digital products, to test them, to check as they will work in the future and if necessary to finish.

scholarly journals Robo-Revolution: A Marxist Approach to Social Uprising in the High-Tech Age

2019 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 224-244
Author(s):  
Lika Rodin
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Social Class ◽  
Social Groups ◽  
Economic Organization ◽  
High Tech ◽  
Contemporary Society ◽  
The Future ◽  
Marxist Approach

With the increasing role of technological agents in contemporary society, questions surrounding the future of socio-economic organization are intensely debated. A variety of predictions have been made, ranging from conservative views that emphasize the gradual integration of techno-actors into human social collectives to radical outlooks that assume the inevitability of a dramatic historic break. This study employs the method of simulation, exploring the on-going path towards automation with the help of classical Marxism. It seeks to understand whether robots and artificial intelligence (AI) might become new value producers and a revolutionary social class. As demonstrated, the continuity of capitalist relationships may facilitate the formation of new social groups and recast class-based political agendas.

A Metalearning Approach on Sociotechnical Systems Toward Improving Organizational Effectiveness

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Carlos Raul Navarro Gonzalez ◽  
Mildrend Ivett Montoya Reyes ◽  
Gabriela Jacobo Galicia ◽  
Ismael Mendoza Muñoz
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Development ◽  
Organizational Effectiveness ◽  
Social Systems ◽  
Sociotechnical Systems ◽  
Synergistic Action ◽  
Organizational Improvement ◽  
Organization Effectiveness ◽  
Technical Systems ◽  
Learning And Change

Sociotechnical systems optimize social and technical systems, but joint optimization should involve autonomy, adaptability, meaningfulness, and feedback as underlying principles. A metalearning approach in the organizational development could affect the process of managing the change inside the organization where innovation, learning, and change produce resistance amount members. A systemic approach in measuring organizational effectiveness is presented emphasizing differences with short-term and long-term measures. Differences between validating and evaluating any sociotechnical interventions is done, proposing that evaluating could help detecting strengths and weaknesses in socio-technical methodologies and provide a guidance to the organizational improvement. This chapter proposes a tool that can join multiple points of view and help to promote a synergistic action toward technical and social systems looking to impact organization effectiveness.

Leader Development in an Unpredictable World

2017 ◽  
pp. 328-339
Author(s):  
T. Ray Ruffin ◽  
William L. Boice
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Development ◽  
Continuous Improvement ◽  
Leader Development ◽  
Organizational Success ◽  
Leadership Theories ◽  
Changing Environment ◽  
Transferable Skills ◽  
The Future ◽  
Development Levels

Few of us would disagree with the proposition that, under certain conditions, leaders have an impact on organizations (Kozlowski, 2012). The style of the leader makes a difference in the success of the cultures in the workforce. Leaders must use continuous improvement to stay competitive in an ever changing environment. This chapter will provide an overview of theories surrounding leadership and Organizational Development (OD). Included will be an introduction and background of leadership theories, organizational development, levels and skills of leadership, and transferable skills. Organizational success in the future will rely on the practices and processes organizations put in place now. How they develop their leaders to meet the challenges of a rapidly changing and unpredictable world.

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