Developing a Framework for a Viable Research University

Adham, Khairul Akmaliah; Kasimin, Hasmiah; Isa, Rosmah Mat; Othman, Fatimah; Ahmad, Faizah

doi:10.1007/s11213-015-9341-8

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“…To enable autonomy, the system should be divided into autonomous units at the micro level such that each unit will be responsible for managing one part of the environmental complexity and achieving one of the system's goals (Espejo and Reyes, 2011), but it should be noted that a crucial condition for success is to achieve the balance between coherence and autonomy in the system's structure. Here, the VSM can be used as a powerful tool to suggest a design with the basic requirements to achieve requisite variety and viability in complex systems (Espejo and Gill, 1997;Adham et al, 2015).…”

Section: Viable System Modelmentioning

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The viable system model and its applications in higher education: an overview

Rezk

Gamal

2019

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Purpose Viable system model (VSM) is a powerful tool mainly used to describe, solve and control systems’ complex problems autonomously. It enables systems to be flexible so that they can survive by rapidly responding and adapting their behaviors to any expected or even unexpected changes in the surrounding environment. This study aims to provide a literature review of the VSM as a conceptual framework for designing viable systems, and its applications in the field of higher education (HE). Design/methodology/approach The review is based on explaining “What is organizational cybernetics?”, clarifying the principles of the VSM as a rational model for designing viable organizations, discussing its drawbacks and the extended VSM, and then presenting a literature review of VSM applications in HE based on papers mainly published from 1993 to 2017. Findings Although there are many contributions provided by applying the VSM in HE, the previous developed models used Beer’s framework with its drawbacks without referring to some important factors neglected within it which are discussed in this review. Originality/value The study presents a summary of previous research on this topic and clarifies the essential issues needed to be addressed to design viable systems. Based on the gaps identified in the literature, some issues have been emphasized to be addressed in future research.

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Section: Viable System Modelmentioning

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The viable system model and its applications in higher education: an overview

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Gamal

2019

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“…Pérez Ríos [16], expone cómo los conceptos relacionados con la cibernética organizacional podrían ser utilizados en combinación con las tecnologías de la información y la comunicación para facilitar las discusiones de grupo sobre temas complejos y para mostrar su impacto en un caso real Akmaliah Adham, Kasimin, Mat Isa, Othman, & Ahmad, [17], proponen el estudio de un marco general de sistemas para una universidad de investigación viable, utiliza el modelo de sistema viable como una herramienta de modelado para desarrollar un marco sistémico para las universidades de investigación viables. Hildbrand, [18], proporciona directrices detalladas sobre cómo llevar a cabo un diagnóstico mediante el modelo de sistema viable de la Cibernética Organizacional junto con métodos de investigación cualitativa, describe la recopilación de datos, el análisis y la presentación de los resultados.…”

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Ingeniería de Sistemas de Gestión mediante la Cibernética Organizacional y Procesos en organizaciones de Junín-Perú

Castro

2019

Rev. Int. Sistemas

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La investigación incide en la intervención de la cibernética organizacional y el enfoque sistémico para el diseño del sistema de gestión de una organización; justificado en la posibilidad de mejorar la efectividad organizacional, acrecentar conceptos de sistemas organizativos e ingeniería de sistemas de gestión. El objetivo es desarrollar de forma inmediata innovaciones efectivas mediante el análisis, diagnóstico y diseño organizacional de la institución. En definitiva la investigación evidencia la comunicación, control organizacional y efectividad, en el sistema de gestión de las organizaciones varios casos de estudio.

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“…Humboldt's legacy, according to some authors (6) (9), will have been one of the pillars for the Knowledge Society as we know it today, where teaching and research are closely linked (9). Although the research university model has been systematically questioned and rethought over the years, it has nowadays become an unavoidable approach (10), specially at the beginning of the 21st century with the exponential increase of the knowledge transfer. In a study carried out in 2015 in Italy, about the evaluation of educational institutions through the research they produce (6), the research role in universities is reinforced, noticing that "research competencies are useful for Professionals in a knowledge society, and because higher education is only able to deliver these competencies if their education is related to research.…”

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“…"(p.514). Besides the way the research quality was evaluated, their importance is recognized as undeniable in a context in which peer recognition is fundamental (10). Thus, research management promotes an integrated approach to identifying, capturing, evaluating, retrieving, and sharing all of a higher education institutions' research information assets.…”

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Managing Research or Managing Knowledge? A Device Tool for Quality Assurance

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INTED Proceedings

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Research management promotes an integrated approach to identifying, capturing, evaluating, retrieving, and sharing all of a higher education institutions' research information assets. These assets may include databases, documents, policies and procedures. Conceptually linked, knowledge and research assume critical relevance as an essential tool to insuring Higher Education institutions quality. Institutions are challenged to develop robust (internal) quality assurance systems in which information about scientific production, research projects, staff curricula are considered as relevant indicators. This commitment with science and research is also visible by the opportunities promoted by institutions for the academic development of their staff. Accordingly, the assessment of research and science indicators becomes an essential step for the definition of research development programmes in HE institutions. Based on this framework, it was developed an online questionnaire to be answered by academic staff, trying to assess some science and research indicators. Trying to measure the research potential of all faculty staff, this assessment tool is organized in distinctive four dimensions, namely researcher's (i) biographic data, (ii) scientific identification, scientific outputs (books, Books' chapters, scientific paper indexed and proceedings), (iii) research project with competitive funding and (iv) suggestions to improve research production. In what concerns to the application, all faculty staff members (teachers and researchers) were invited to contribute. The results were presented and discussed personally and collectively with all academic community. These results also provide relevant Key Performance Indicators, also known as KPIs or Key Success Indicators (KSIs), that could help managers and researchers gauge the effectiveness of various functions and processes important to achieving organizational goals. If scientific research is a strategic priority to higher education institutions, this kind of KPIs could be used to help academic managers to assess whether they or their faculty/research staff are on or off target towards those goals.

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Developing a Framework for a Viable Research University

Cited by 18 publications

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The viable system model and its applications in higher education: an overview

The viable system model and its applications in higher education: an overview

Ingeniería de Sistemas de Gestión mediante la Cibernética Organizacional y Procesos en organizaciones de Junín-Perú

Managing Research or Managing Knowledge? A Device Tool for Quality Assurance

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