- What is an example of a complex adaptive system?
A complex adaptive system refers to a system in which a perfect comprehension of the parts of an individual does not convey an ideal apprehension of the entire behavior of the system automatically. Similarly, as authors connote, the complex adaptive system incorporates several theoretical frameworks and is also highly interdisciplinary, in search of responses to some ultimate queries concerning living, flexible, changeable arrangements (Liu et al., 2015). There are many typical examples of complex adaptive systems. An excellent example of a complex adaptive system is the climate. Climate is an adaptive system due to its many components, the connection between the components, and the leaderless interactions in it.
Moreover, climate involves numerous agents such as Greenhouse gases, cars, factories, carbon dioxide, and fossil fuels. The connection between the agents can lead to an extensive collection of climate reactions. For instance, carbon dioxide emissions increase extra infrared rays, thus causing the surface of the earth to heat up. There is no particular agent that controls climate, and hence, it transpires as a result of the connection of all the agents to form a climate (Schuur et al., 2015). Additionally, climate incorporates energy circulation through the matter of the earth following physics law. In climate there is no leader, apart from in the way energy and water flow in their systems by physics law. It is therefore evident that several agents combine to form climate just as the Church, though many of them form a single body (1 Corinthians 10:17).
References
Liu, J., Mooney, H., Hull, V., Davis, S. J., Gaskell, J., Hertel, T., … & Li, S. (2015). Systems integration for global sustainability. Science, 347(6225), 1258832.
Schuur, E. A., McGuire, A. D., Schädel, C., Grosse, G., Harden, J. W., Hayes, D. J., … & Natali, S. M. (2015). Climate change and permafrost carbon feedback. Nature, 520(7546), 171.
- As a consultant, whether or not the organization is designed as a machine that seeks to maximize efficiency and production or an organism that seeks to maximize satisfaction, flexibility, and development what advice should be given.
Organizations require advises to drive them toward the achievement of goals and objectives regardless of their motives of operation. As a consultant, I would recommend organizations always to be keen on management and management innovation. The entire organization depends on management for its survival in the competitive market. Management being the administration of the organization have responsibilities for setting the organization’s strategy and coordinating the employees’ efforts to achieve its goals by application of accessible resources like natural, financial, human and technological resources. According to Henri Fayol, managing involves forecasting, planning, organizing, commanding, coordinating, and controlling all the activities of the organization for the achievement of an organizational goal (Edward, 2018). Therefore, management is, and organizations should always ensure that its management team is active and works towards the accomplishment of a common goal. On the other hand, management innovation refers to shifting from outdated principles of management, practices, and processes or shifting from customary forms of organization that significantly changes how the management work is performed (Goffin & Mitchell, 2016). Moreover, for organizations to make their innovation culture effective, there should be involvement of all employees in sharing of ideas regardless of their ranks in the business. This provides a collaborative platform to connect the gap between employees and senior management, thus making. Involvement of employees in sharing ideas make them comprehend how their ideas will be of great importance in contributing to the success of the organization, and this much motivate them. Furthermore, teamwork yields a lot for the organization just as the word says, “Two are better than one because they have a good return in their labor (Ecclesiastes 3:22, New International Version)
References
Edwards, R. (2018). An Elaboration of the Administrative Theory of the 14 Principles of Management by Henri Fayol. International Journal for Empirical Education and Research, 1(1), 41-51.
Goffin, K., & Mitchell, R. (2016). Innovation management: effective strategy and implementation. Macmillan International Higher Education.