Description: Organizational cybernetics applies the principles related to the Communication and Control" from Cybernetics to Organizations
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Organizational Cybernetics (OC) is one of the systems approaches which, deriving from the Cybernetics created by Wiener (Cybernetics: Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine, 1948), applies the principles associated with “Communication and Control”, from Cybernetics, to organisations. O.C. was developed from both a theoretical and methodological point of view by Stafford Beer (1979, 1981 and 1985).
In the section "Introduction to Organizational Cybernetics (OC)" are shown some of the more relevant aspects of OC:
Also in that section we will review the 25 main organizational pathologies clasified into: