Organisational systems and their coordination

2020 ◽  
pp. 91-106
Author(s):  
Gordon Pearson
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle ◽  
Phase Change ◽  
The People ◽  
The Social ◽  
Effective System ◽  
System Life ◽  
And Control ◽  
Coordination And Control ◽  
Competitive Economy ◽  
The Coordinator

Organisational systems come in many different formats and ownerships. The essential characteristic of any system is that it must have a system purpose which it exists to fulfil. For organisational systems, the various components, that is the people working in the system, must know and understand what that purpose is and their role in its fulfilment, as well as the system’s relationship with the macro system within which it operates. Such organisational systems are essentially dynamic, progressing through a system life cycle of essentially unpredictable stages, but with certain predictable changes occurring at each phase change. Effective system coordination depends on the coordinator fully understanding the system operations and how it relates to its various environments. System ownership is external to system operation and has no direct engagement with coordination and control. The importance is noted of real competition to systems serving the progressive-competitive economy and the failure of pretend competition being imposed on systems serving the social-infrastructural economy.

De invloed van coördinatie- en vertrouwensproblemen op de toegang tot thuiswerken

2005 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Pascale Peters ◽  
Tanja van der Lippe
Keyword(s):  
Employment Relation ◽  
Work History ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
Job Level ◽  
Home Based ◽  
The Social ◽  
Additional Coordination ◽  
Job Category ◽  
And Control ◽  
Coordination And Control

Samenvatting The influence of coordination- and trustproblems on employees’ access to home based teleworking. A multi actor perspective This study analyses the influence of coordination and trust problems on employees’ access to weekly home-based teleworking from a combined perspective of Transaction-Cost Theory and New Economic-Sociology. Access is more likely when additional coordination and control problems are smaller. Indicators of the ‘telework risk’ are time sovereignty, job autonomy, need for accessibility and outputmanagement, measured both at the job category and individual level. In addition, also ‘trust-enhancing’ effects of the social embeddedness of the employment relation are studied by looking into effects of past and future duration of the current employment relation. Multi-actor data are used, collected in 2003 among 30 Dutch employer organisations, 89 job categories and 1,114 job holders. The research shows that both coordination and trust problems determine employees’ access to telework. However, whereas coordination problems can only be viewed significant job level traits, trust problems play a role at both levels. Moreover, a longer work history with the current employer increases the odds of access to home-based telework.

Musique Concrètization

2011 ◽  
pp. 125-139
Author(s):  
Jean Hébert
Keyword(s):  
Popular Music ◽  
Heterogeneous Networks ◽  
Social Reproduction ◽  
Music Technology ◽  
The Past ◽  
Critical Theories ◽  
The People ◽  
The Social ◽  
Music Distribution ◽  
And Control

For the past several years, a crisis over copyright and control of music distribution has been developing. The outcome of this crisis has tremendous implications not only for the fate of commercial and creative entities involved in music, but for the social reproduction of knowledge and culture more generally. Critical theories of technology are useful in addressing these implications. This chapter introduces the concept of “concretization” (Feenberg, 1999), and demonstrates how it can be mapped onto the field of current music technologies and the lives and work of the people using them. This reading of popular music technologies resonates strongly with themes arising out of current scholarship covering the crisis of copyright and music distribution. Reading music technology in this way can yield a lucid account of the diverse trajectories and goals inherent in heterogeneous networks of participants involved with music technologies. It can also give us not only a detailed description of the relations of various groups, individuals, and technologies involved in networks of music, but also a prescriptive program for the future maintenance and strengthening of a vibrant, perhaps less intensively commercialized, and radically democratized sphere of creative exchange.

Popularity and the Art of Rhetoric

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Markku Peltonen
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Julius Caesar ◽  
Tudor England ◽  
The People ◽  
The Social ◽  
And Control ◽  
Destructive Potential

This chapter demonstrates the social depth of politics in Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar, focusing the theory and practice of the ars rhetorica. Central to political (in)stability in both classical Rome and Tudor England, the rhetorical virtuosity of the elite sought to constrain and control the restive commons and the potency of popularity. Since commoners were its intended primary audience, Cicero argued for ‘the ultimately popular nature of eloquence’. Julius Caesar sets two types of orator into a rhetorical contest: the nobleman who pacifies the volatile masses, and the ‘people pleaser’, a widely feared figure, who inflames them to insurgence. Different modes of rhetoric unfold: whereas Brutus’s speech violates the precept of adaptation to an audience, in Mark Anthony’s rhetoric, popularity pays off. Shakespeare’s bleak play departs from its sources to magnify the destructive potential of popular orators: unhistorically, Shakespeare renders the incitements of Anthony’s eloquence the trigger of the civil war.

Implications of Network Relations for the Governance of Complex Projects

2018 ◽  
Vol 49 (2) ◽  
pp. 71-88 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vivian Sebben Adami ◽  
Jorge Renato Verschoore
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Models ◽  
Network Governance ◽  
Project Networks ◽  
Complex Projects ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Network Approach ◽  
Project Network ◽  
Complex Project ◽  
And Control ◽  
Coordination And Control

Our article aims to answer the call for studies on new perspectives of complex projects and their governance. We adopt the social network approach to investigate the implications of network relations for the governance of project networks. We analyze quantitative and qualitative data following two theoretical models: flow and coordination. Our results show how the supply, contractual, and information networks influence the governance of project networks. We contribute to the literature explaining the dependence of the project network governance to network relations. It is necessary to use different theoretical models to analyze the coordination and control of complex project networks.

Investigation into Funding Strategies of Social Enterprises

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 34-61
Author(s):  
Shengfen Zheng
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle ◽  
Social Enterprise ◽  
Social Impact ◽  
Development Stage ◽  
Social Enterprises ◽  
Venture Philanthropy ◽  
Sustainable Business ◽  
The People ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Impact Bonds

Abstract It has been attracting growing attention of all sectors of society to support social enterprises with social investment. This article focuses on the four much-discussed funding strategies of venture philanthropy, social impact investment, social impact bonds and crowdfunding. For the research, a total of 186 questionnaires were distributed and 92 of them were returned and found valid, with the rate of recovery standing at 49.5%. It is found that among the four strategies, the more heard of, the clearer, but that a strategy is clear does not mean it is readily accepted by the people; and among the companies with the registered name including the wording of social enterprise and those logging in as social enterprises, there is no significant statistical difference in the funding strategy. The result manifests the social enterprises in Taiwan are in the start-up stage, and goes in line with this article’s observation of the funding strategies, i.e., the funding strategy of the social enterprise has a lot to do with its life cycle. On this account, this article holds that we should pay attention to the life cycle of the social enterprises, adopt appropriate funding strategies based on their development stage and build sustainable business modes.

K-Means Clustering Machine Learning Concept to Enable Social Distancing in Public Places

2021 ◽  
pp. 420-431
Author(s):  
Abdullah Saleh Alqahtani
Keyword(s):  
Clustering Algorithms ◽  
Virus Spread ◽  
Public Places ◽  
Social Distancing ◽  
The People ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Government ◽  
User Knowledge ◽  
And Control ◽  
Learning Concept

In endemic and pandemic situations, governments will implement social distancing to control the virus spread and control the affected and death rate of the country until the vaccine is introduced. For social distancing, people may forget in some public places for necessary needs. To avoid this situation, the authors develop the Android mobile application to notify the social distancing alert to people to avoid increased levels of the endemic and pandemic spread. This application works in both online and offline mode in the smart phones. This application helps the people to obey the government rule to overcome the endemic and pandemic situations. This application uses k-means clustering algorithms to cluster the data and form the more safety clusters for social distancing. It uses artificial intelligence to track the living location by the mobile camera without the internet facilities. It helps the user to follow social distancing even with no internet with user knowledge.

scholarly journals Vulnerability of Elderly Women: Victim of Gender Discrimination

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Subir Kumar Roy
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle ◽  
Gender Discrimination ◽  
Third World ◽  
Elderly Women ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Male Counterpart ◽  
Simple Arithmetic ◽  
Labor Education ◽  
The People ◽  
And Control

The life cycle of human being completes with the process of aging but we fail to realize this simple arithmetic of life and often consider our elders as a burden for us. They are compelled to compromise with their dignity and integrity and forced to live at the mercy of their own nearest and dearest. When we talk about elderly women their position is more appalling than their male counterpart due to this male chauvinism which tries to regulate every affair of the life of the people. Under the alibi of protection and security of women they are subjected to the violent gender discrimination and compelled to live and lead their life at the fingertips of a male. The women in especially in third world countries are considered as a tool of procreation of child and all her activities and qualities of life are relegated with the household course. Across the globe the male tendency is to regulate Women’s ownership and control of property, resources created by her own labor, education and information and even her reproductive abilities and sexualities with an intention to jeopardize and throttled down the rights of the women. Women bear this status till her last breath and hence, it is axiomatic that how vulnerable their position is. 

People who never have widows

2021 ◽  
pp. 65
Author(s):  
Margarita F. Albedil
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
Caste System ◽  
Distinctive Features ◽  
Research Article ◽  
Original Culture ◽  
The People ◽  
The Social ◽  
Wedding Ceremony ◽  
The Many ◽  
And Control

The research article is focused on the peculiarities of the ethnocultural identity of the Newars.This is one of the many Nepalese peoples that is practically not studied in Russian oriental studies.Newars are considered the descendants of the ancient population of the Kathmandu valley,but it is not known for certain whether their ancestors were indigenous here or came to the valley from other places.  Currently, the number of Newars is about 1.5 million people, this is the 6th population of the people of Nepal. They live mainly in the cities of the Kathmandu Valley.The Newars have long been famous as the creators of a rich and original culture. Their pronounced eth-nocultural identity has deep historical roots, and among its distinctive features there are many unique ones.The Newar religion is a synthe-sis of Hinduism and Buddhism, while many of its features are enshrined in a strictly ranked caste society. The caste system originally associated with Hinduism extends among the Newars and Buddhism, although initially it was incompatible with it. A distinctive feature of the social life of the Newars is the guthi, social and religious formations that regulate and control the social and ritual life of the people and help them maintain internal unity.Unique features are also preserved in ritual practices, for example, in the ihi wedding ceremony, during which girls are symbolically married to the deities Vishnu-Narayana and Surya.When a girl later marries in the usual way and her husband dies for whatever reason, she does not become a widow.The cult of the living goddess Kumari is also unique.

5.3.5 Addressing the people problem - ISO/IEC 15288 and the Human-System Life Cycle

2002 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 641-647 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stuart Arnold ◽  
Jonathan Earthy ◽  
Brian Sherwood-Jones
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle ◽  
Human System ◽  
The People ◽  
System Life
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