Productivity management: a soft systems approach

Work Study ◽  
1993 ◽  
Vol 42 (1) ◽  
pp. 8-9 ◽  
Author(s):  
R.P. Mohanty
Keyword(s):  
Systems Approach ◽  
Soft Systems ◽  
Productivity Management

Developing GP Monitoring Systems Guided by a Soft Systems Approach

1995 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 259-267 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tony Hindle
Keyword(s):  
National Health Service ◽  
Health Service ◽  
General Practitioners ◽  
National Health ◽  
Systems Approach ◽  
Soft Systems Methodology ◽  
Monitoring Systems ◽  
Contract Management ◽  
Systems Methodology ◽  
Soft Systems

This paper describes a selected aspect of a research project concerned with ‘contracts and competition’ in the recently reformed National Health Service. The particular feature highlighted in this paper is the central role played by the general practitioners in the health service as principal sources of the demands made on provider units (particularly hospitals) and, hence, critical determinants of volumes and costs in contracting. A practical outcome of the research has been the development of GP monitoring systems to be used by provider units particularly in the context of marketing-led referral expectations. The approach used to highlight areas of potential GP contract management and monitoring improvements has been a development of soft systems methodology.

Improving the Role of Organisational Culture in Change Management through a Systems Approach

2015 ◽  
pp. 230-271
Author(s):  
N. Gökhan Torlak
Keyword(s):  
Change Management ◽  
Corporate Culture ◽  
Culture Change ◽  
Systems Approach ◽  
Soft Systems Methodology ◽  
Organisational Culture ◽  
Organisational Performance ◽  
Systems Methodology ◽  
Soft Systems

The chapter assumes organisational culture, which is most valuable resource of organisation, cannot often be treated coherently by managers in change management that ultimately leads to ineffectiveness and failure. In order to make organisational culture a powerful managerial instrument in change management resulting in high organisational performance the chapter proceeds through the following sequence. At first, it elaborates chief characteristics of organisational culture in order to underline its value; secondly, portrays significance of interpreting and managing organisational milieu; thirdly, emphasises necessity and difficulty of organisational culture change; and then offers a systems approach called two strands model of soft systems methodology to improve the effect of corporate culture on organisational performance. The last part describes the methodology in depth and shows how it is applied to a private hospital that generates its improved version dealing with the major issue of open, full and equal participation in organisational culture change management.

Development of the conceptual model of energy and utility management in textile processing: A soft systems approach

2012 ◽  
Vol 135 (2) ◽  
pp. 607-617 ◽  
Author(s):  
E.W.T. Ngai ◽  
Chester K.M. To ◽  
Vincent S.M. Ching ◽  
L.K. Chan ◽  
Maggie C.M. Lee ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Model ◽  
Systems Approach ◽  
Textile Processing ◽  
Soft Systems
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