Success to the Successful: The Use of Systems Thinking Tools in Teaching OB

Bardoel, Anne; Haslett, Tim

doi:10.1057/omj.2004.21

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“…Organizational research suggests that managers often assume a cause and effect relationship between activities and outcomes, assuming a linear relationship between antecedents and consequences (Bolman & Deal, 1994). In the early 1990s, organizations begin using systems thinking as a “language for communicating about complexities and interdependencies,” (Bardoel & Haslett, 2004, p. 113). Systems thinking requires students to concentrate on understanding underlying structures and problems rather than just looking at a direct causal relationship.…”

Section: Systems Thinkingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Integrating Corporate Social Responsibility Awareness Into a Retail Management Course

Beitelspacher

Rodgers

2018

Journal of Marketing Education

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Both students and industry are demanding that marketing instructors incorporate discussions of environmental and social responsibility into their courses. Marketing educators play a critical role in developing the knowledge and skills students need to effectively integrate corporate social responsibility (CSR) into their future business endeavors. Yet many educators struggle with developing meaningful and effective strategies to incorporate CSR authentically into their curricula. The project discussed in this article outlines a learning tool that encourages students to consider CSR in the context of their own purchase decisions while also considering CSR from a broader macro environmental perspective. The main goal is to build a CSR awareness that extends beyond a student's initial purchase exchange. Using retail as the context, students are required to consider CSR challenges including labor laws, environmental regulations, sourcing issues, and so on from the retailer and supplier relationships as well as the retailer and consumer relationships. Based on preliminary results, students' awareness of CSR challenges throughout the supply chain increased and the project proved to be an effective way to engage students in real learning about CSR.

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Section: Systems Thinkingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Integrating Corporate Social Responsibility Awareness Into a Retail Management Course

Beitelspacher

Rodgers

2018

Journal of Marketing Education

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“…Systems thinking has been associated to different areas of research since several decades now, and can also be relevant for information and cyber security. There are many examples where using simulations for teaching systems thinking, such as the work from Goodwin and Franklin [6], or the contribution from Anne Badoel and Haslett [3]. Their seminal work motivated our work further in this paper, while aiming to use simulation as part of the curriculum developed in the field of cyber security.…”

Section: Learning Benefitsmentioning

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A Pilot Study in Cyber Security Education Using CyberAIMs: A Simulation-Based Experiment

Zoto

Kowalski

Frantz

et al. 2018

IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology

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We hardly pass any day without hearing of a new cyber attack. The recent ever-increasing occurrence of such attacks has given to researchers, practitioners and others an opportunity to raise awareness and train staff from the public and private institutions, as well as other people within the society, about the evolving nature of cyberspace threats. As a first step in this process, we aim to present main findings from a pilot study conducted with a target group of Master students with diverse backgrounds and knowledge about cyber security practices. The study was done using an agent-based simulation tool, CyberAIMs, as the core component of the experiment. Students were involved in a pre-test/post-test study in order to assess the probable change in their thinking process after using CyberAIMs. A scenario created from a real cyber case was additionally used to get the participants accustomed to the tool. The experiment is still in progress, while preliminary data indicate that there is a shift in students' perspective on the most relevant attributes affecting defense agents' performance, results that could be related to both adversarial and systems thinking processes.

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“…Many participants expressed uncertainty about whether they could trust district leaders to give them accurate and timely information. These two historical archetypal patterns of decision making contributed to the third pattern, success‐to‐the‐successful, an archetype which is more developed in the organizational archetype literature (Bardoel and Haslett, 2004; Senge, 1990; Senge et al , 2000).…”

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Working against ourselves: decision making in a small rural school district

Patterson

Koenigs²,

Mohn³

et al. 2006

Journal of Educational Administration

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PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to examine decision making and resource allocation in a small, rural district in a Midwestern state of the USA during a time of economic retrenchment.Design/methodology/approachQualitative case study methods were used, including focus groups and personal interviews with current and former district administrators, Board of Education members, teachers, parents, and other members of the communities the district serves. Organizational archetypes were used as an analytic framework to reveal the deeper cultural values and preferences influencing board and superintendent decisions.FindingsUnderlying historical patterns of decision making were found that were not aligned with constituents' preferences. District leaders refused to consider information that did not fit with their own beliefs and a crisis of leadership occurred, which resulted in the ousting of the superintendent and a majority of school board members. These patterns of decision making furthermore advantaged one group of constituents and disadvantaged another.Originality/valueThis study illustrates the potential of archetypes as an analytic framework for understanding organizational decision making. Revealing tacit patterns of decision making can help organizations recognize and change patterns that are dysfunctional and have negative outcomes.

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Success to the Successful: The Use of Systems Thinking Tools in Teaching OB

Cited by 8 publications

References 9 publications

Integrating Corporate Social Responsibility Awareness Into a Retail Management Course

Integrating Corporate Social Responsibility Awareness Into a Retail Management Course

A Pilot Study in Cyber Security Education Using CyberAIMs: A Simulation-Based Experiment

Working against ourselves: decision making in a small rural school district

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