The systems approach to organizations emphasizes the whole while still looking at the parts. Too often in our lives we become too concerned with one part of our lives while disregarding everything else. We can concentrate on problems we are having without thinking about the blessings.
Reflect for a few moments and think about how everything in your life fits together.
The International Society for Systems Science has an online primer which can help you understand general systems theory. While communications scholars use general systems theory to help describe organizations there has been comparatively little predictive work done using this paradigm. One of the earliest theories in communication Claude Shannon's Information Theory later discussed by Warren Weaver is a product of systems theory.
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I understand the systems theroies, but I do not totally agree with it. Sometimes things don't have cause and effect, and sometimes everything is not based on science. I feel that things happen because they are predicted by a higher power. The systems appoarch is saying that an organization could be related to science, however not everything can be scientifically explained.
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