Management Strategies in Fixed-Structure Models of Complex Organizations

Abstract

The organizational analogues corresponding to a binary switching net models provide useful insight into the behavior of complex organizational control systems. Imposition of certain types of structure on the responses of elements in a system to their inputs enables control of the overall behavior of such nets to an extent that makes them plausible as real world models. Two such structural concepts are examined, internal homogeneity and forcibility, with respect to their influence on the behavior of individual elements and of the system as a whole. These two concepts are interpreted as managerial strategies, the former being management by exception and the latter being management by priority.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 14, 1977
Accession Number
ADA044899

Entities

People

  • Alan E. Gelfand
  • Crayton C. Walker

Organizations

  • Stanford University

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Communities of Interest

  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • California
  • Classification
  • Contracts
  • Control Systems
  • Governments
  • High Density
  • Homogeneity
  • Logic Elements
  • Military Research
  • Organizational Structure
  • Security
  • Statistics
  • Switching
  • Two Dimensional
  • United States
  • United States Government

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  • Systems Analysis and Design