Hello
In another thread, there was the discussion about the "guerilla LO" or
underground networks-to get things done. I think that these underground
entities are really "self organized systems" that come into being in order
to accomplish the work at hand.
Later...
Michael Erickson
sysengr@atc.boeing.com
On Thu, 20 Jun 1996, John Woods wrote:
> This stimulates me to comment on an idea I have been thinking about for a
> while. It is about organizational structures and self-organizing systems.
> It seems to me that it is a natural tendency of people to self-organize to
> achieve their common goals. In an organization, if you were to bring people
> together whose job it was to complete a project, they would naturally
> organize themselves to do that. A problem occurs in many organizations when
> the tendency to self-organize into informal results-oriented structures runs
> smack dab into formal organizational structures, chain of command, and so
> on. What can happen, it seems, is that these formal structures and the
> people who occupy places in the hierarchy may feel threatened by such
> self-organization. What they do adds little value to the processes by which
> the project gets done.
--Michael Erickson <sysengr@atc.boeing.com>
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