butterfly effect

• Social Systems Theory As Theoretical Framework for Human Resource Management - Benediction or Curse?

Social systems theory as developed by Niklas Luhmann is an option for the theoretical foundation of Human Resource Management (HRM). After clarifying the advantages of using a grad (social) theory as the basic theoretical perspective, the roots of this social systems theory - the deterministic view of systems as machines, the open systems approach and non-linear systems theory - are addressed. Based on the view of social systems as autopoietically closed systems, 5 major contributions to a theoretical foundation of HRM are identified: 1. the conceptualization of organizing and managing human resources as social processes, thus overcoming an individualistic angle, 2. the new importance of individuals as essential element in the system's environment, 3. the abstention form far reaching or...

... the present state of the universe as the effect of its past and the cause of its future. An intell... for a very limited period of time (,,butterfly effect"; e.g. Lorenz 1963), but that are not rando...

• Management Revue
• Band 15 Nr. 2, Januar 2004

• Samstagstipp

...Nicht ohne Folgen für die Gegenwart. "Butterfly Effect", Thriller USA 2004, 22.15 Uhr, RTL . Copyr...

• Die Tageszeitung; Berlin
• 1. Oktober 2009