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Individual competence and group behavior within a living system
Author(s) -
Österlund Jan
Publication year - 1995
Publication title -
behavioral science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.371
H-Index - 45
eISSN - 1099-1743
pISSN - 0005-7940
DOI - 10.1002/bs.3830400104
Subject(s) - competence (human resources) , exploit , living systems , psychology , group living , population , computer science , knowledge management , social psychology , artificial intelligence , sociology , ecology , demography , computer security , biology
This paper contains a report from a study of how individual humans exploit their competence in group work during a workshop. The intention of the study was to know how well groups of workshop participants would apply to the theories of living systems and of organization science about gatekeepers and the organizational structure mentioned by H. Minzberg (Minzberg 1983). The workshop population characteristics and its program procedure are described. A method for the study is created. The method builds on a graphical model of living systems theory. An attempt to test the method is carried out by studying the behavior of workshop groups.