An Organizational Cybernetics Framework for Designing a Viable Higher Education System

Rezk, Sahar Saeed; Gamal, Shahinaz

doi:10.1007/s11213-019-09505-9

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“…An excellent broader overview to health systems research from a systemic point of view is given by Jackson and Sambo (2019). Much can be gleaned from a variety of other applications, such as viable organizations in disaster response (Preece et al 2013(Preece et al , 2015, the development of local communities (Espinosa and Walker 2013;Espinosa and Duque 2018;Velásquez-Rodríguez and Payán-Durán 2021), learning and educational development (Hart and Paucar-Caceres 2016;Rezk and Gamal 2020), governance of IT and software projects (Arghand et al 2021;Puche-Regaliza et al 2020), and in tourism (Sánchez-García et al 2020;Núñez-Ríos et al 2020).…”

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Systemic Problem Structuring in a Complex Hospital Environment using Viable System Diagnosis – Keeping the Blood Flowing

Vik

Finnestrand

Flood

2021

Syst Pract Action Res

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This article presents the application of the systemic problem structuring approach Viable System Diagnosis (VSD) within the Department of Orthopedic Surgery in a large hospital in Norway. It explains why systemic thinking is relevant to this uniquely complex form of human organization. The department was coping with systemic dysfunction and VSD was chosen because previous applications demonstrated VSD excels at diagnosis of what is causing dysfunction. VSD was employed through a participatory framework that included in the process, among other stakeholders, medics, technologists, managers, administrators and, as far as possible given the sensitive nature of patient information, the patient. VSD guided thinking about what the organization is set up to do and the existing organizational arrangements to achieve that. The outcome was an agenda for debate that guided stakeholder discussions toward ways and means of improving organizational arrangements. The article briefly reviews previous applications of VSD in the hospital sector and other large complex organisations.

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Section: Initial Response To Results Reflections and Questionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Systemic Problem Structuring in a Complex Hospital Environment using Viable System Diagnosis – Keeping the Blood Flowing

Vik

Finnestrand

Flood

2021

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“…Teachers can acquire knowledge through search engines, communication communities and other ways, and can also store and share personal knowledge through modern technology tools. Educational cybernetics is a discipline that integrates the ideology and methods of cybernetics into the field of education to promote the development of education [15]. Based on the perspective of educational cybernetics, teachers should actively carry out knowledge acquisition and knowledge sharing activities, so as to obtain more effective feedback information and increase their own knowledge reserves.…”

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Construction of Teacher Personal Knowledge Management Model Based on Data Mining Algorithm from TPACK Perspective

2024

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With the renewal of teaching concept and the development of educational technology, educational practice has put forward higher requirements for teachers' teaching level. The amount of knowledge has become the core indicator to measure teachers' teaching level. The research on teachers' personal knowledge management is of great significance to promote teachers' teaching level. Therefore, this paper studied the teacher PKM, constructed the teacher PKM model, proposed the teacher PKM strategy based on the perspective of Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPACK) and educational cybernetics, and the teacher's personal knowledge acquisition method based on Expectation-Maximization algorithm (EM). At the same time, this paper conducted an experimental study on teachers' personal knowledge management, and obtained the following proof through the experimental study. The average personal knowledge management evaluation score of teachers was 6.525. The average feasibility evaluation score of experts on teachers' personal knowledge management strategy was 7.65, and the average effectiveness evaluation score of experts on teachers' personal knowledge management strategy was 8.575. At this stage, teachers' personal knowledge management ability still needed to be improved, and the strategies proposed in this paper had certain practical value.

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“…In a previous study, a framework for designing a viable university, as a complex higher education system, is developed based on the functions of the system (Rezk and Gamal, 2020). Millwood and Powell (2011) Manage courses variety at the university Gregory and Miller (2014) Design a viable business curriculum Parra et al (2017) Evaluate postgraduate courses Academic departments Green and Hardman (2013) Evaluate the viability of an academic department E-learning Liber (1998) Enhance the educational process to be flexible Britain et al (2007) Manage the educational variety Urban planning Ríos et al (2012) Provide a physical design of the university campuses…”

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Towards viability of academic departments: the power of organizational cybernetics

Rezk

Gamal

2021

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Purpose The purpose of this study is to use the power of organization cybernetics (OC) to design a flexible viable academic department that is at the risk of losing its viability because of the complexity of the educational environment. Design/methodology/approach The proposed framework is developed based on Beer’s OC and the viable system model (VSM). This study adopts the guidelines for applying the VSM described by Stafford Beer and José Pérez Ríos. Findings The framework presents a comprehensive explanation of the essential functions of a viable academic department. In addition, it determines the basis for an inclusive redesign that can be used to maintain the department’s identity and viability as well. Originality/value Although there are many studies applying the framework of the VSM, in an educational context, most of them limited its usage to the evaluation of the viability of academic departments. They did not use the power of OC to design for systemic viability. Accordingly, the application of OC and the VSM, for the sake of designing a viable academic department, can be considered as highly original.

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An Organizational Cybernetics Framework for Designing a Viable Higher Education System

Cited by 6 publications

References 27 publications

Systemic Problem Structuring in a Complex Hospital Environment using Viable System Diagnosis – Keeping the Blood Flowing

Systemic Problem Structuring in a Complex Hospital Environment using Viable System Diagnosis – Keeping the Blood Flowing

Construction of Teacher Personal Knowledge Management Model Based on Data Mining Algorithm from TPACK Perspective

Towards viability of academic departments: the power of organizational cybernetics

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