- Management schools
- Systems School Background
- Systems theory
- The 3 basic premises of systems theory
- References
The school of systems, in the field of administration, is a theory that considers administrative pieces as part of a whole.
Systems are made up of a set of parts. The number of parts does not matter, but the interaction between them.
All elements within a system have a specific function; they all complement each other. Therefore, when one of the parts fails, the entire system is destabilized.
Systems theory is the application of this basis in the functioning of the administration.
Management schools
The systems school is not the only or the first management school. Many preceded it and some held their position for years.
Each school defined its perspective of the administration and the way in which its application should be approached.
For example, the empirical school defends experience as a source of knowledge. Therefore, it advocates learning by doing.
The scientific school was born around the year 1911. It sought administrative precision through the scientific method.
For its part, the classical school leaned toward the role of the administrator. Based on this, she defined the universal principles of the administrator and her specific tasks.
The school of structuralists focused on the social role of management. For this he used a sociological approach.
Systems School Background
The most current of the schools is systems theory. Outbreaks of this came from two different sources.
Some argue that Wilfredo Pareto, in his book Treatise on general sociology, offers the fundamental principles of the theory.
According to Pareto, society is a system composed of subsystems. These subsystems are articulated among themselves, and it is their relationship that sustains the social structure.
Others defend Chester Barnard as the father of the system school, due to the postulates of the book Executive Functions. Barnard gave the administrator a role in these social systems.
Explain that, as a biological member of the social system, the administrator has a duty to cooperate in his work.
Systems theory
To understand systems theory, it is necessary to avoid seeing systems as separate elements.
The effect that the action of one element has on the rest must be observed, and it must be ensured that it is adequate so that the results are efficient.
This theory applied to administration means that the elements of the administrative process are studied separately but not in isolation, since the proper functioning can only be verified according to the reaction of the rest of the system.
The 3 basic premises of systems theory
1- The systems are not isolated, but are part of other systems
The solar system is part of a galaxy called the Milky Way, which is another system. In other words, society has the same operating structure.
2- All systems are open
This is because each is a consequence of the previous one. In other words, the functioning of one does not depend only on the parts that compose it; it also depends on the effectiveness of the systems that precede it.
For example, if there is a black hole that destabilizes the Milky Way, it will affect the solar system.
3- The internal functioning of the system depends on its internal structure
This implies that it is the internal design and the effectiveness of its parts that define the overall operation of the system.
References
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- Administrative school: systems theory. (2016) fido.palermo.edu
- Systems school. (2007) edukativos.com
- Administrative schools. (2001) uaeh.edu.mx
- Administrative schools. goconqr.com