Understanding the Systems Approach
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ScribdTranslationsSystems Approach:
1. Definition, use, and scope of the systems approach.
It is a methodological framework that serves as a guide for problem-solving, especially.
towards those who emerge in the direction or management of a system, when there is an existence of a
discrepancy between what is held and what is desired, its issues, its components, and its
solution.
The systems approach encompasses the activities that determine an overall objective and the justification.
for each of the subsystems, the actions and standards in terms of the objective
In general, the complete set of subsystems and their plans for a specific problem.
The systemic approach is, above all, a combination ofphilosophyand ofmethodologygeneral
premise to afunctionofplanningydesign. Theanalysisofsystemis based on the
interdisciplinary methodology that integratestechniquesand knowledge of various fields
fundamentally when planning and designingsystemscomplex and voluminous that
they carry outfunctionsspecific.
Utility and Scope of the Systems Approach:
It could be applied in the study of theorganizations, institutionsand various entities proposing
an interdisciplinary, multidisciplinary, and transdisciplinary vision that will help to analyze and developthe companyof
integral way allowing to identify and understand more clearly and deeply
theproblemsorganizational, its multiple causes and consequences. Likewise, looking at
theorganizationas an integrated entity, made up of parts that are interrelated with each other
through astructurethat unfolds in a specific environment, one will be able to
ofto be abledetect with the amplitude required so much the problematic, how
theprocessesofchangethat in an integral way, that is to say at a human level, ofresourcesand processes,
would be necessary to implement within it, to have growth anddevelopmentsustainable and
in viable terms in atimedetermined.
2. Philosophical roots of systemic thinking
Systemic thinking formally appeared about 45 years ago, starting from the
questions raised by Ludwing Von Bertalanffy, who questioned the application
ofmethodscientific, because it was based on a mechanistic and causal view, which it
it was weak as a framework for explaining the major problems that occur in the
living systems.
Systems thinking is theattitudeof the human being, which is based on the perception of the world
real in terms of totalities for its analysis, understanding, and action, unlike the
approach of the scientific method, which only perceives parts of it and in a disconnected way.
The philosophies that enrich contemporary systemic thinking are thephenomenologyfrom
Husserl and Gadamer's hermeneutics, which in turn is nourished by theexistentialismof the Heidegeer
of Dilthey's historicism and of Husserl's very phenomenology.
3. Systemic and traditional approach, definition and characteristics.
The traditional approach conceives the object of scientific research as a collection of
isolated components, from whose properties they tried to deduce those of the whole object, without
consider the interactions between the parties.
Characteristics of the Systems Approach:
Interdisciplinary: Several disciplines are involved in solving a problem.
Qualitative and Quantitative at the same time: It uses an adaptable approach, as the designer does not
applies exclusively certain instruments.
Organized: The Systems Approach is a means to solve amorphous and extensive problems.
whose solutions include the application of large amounts of resources in a form
ordered.
Creative: Despite the widespread procedures devised for system design, the
the approach must be creative, focusing first on the proposed goals and then
in the methods or the way in which they will be achieved.
--Theoretical: It is based on the theoretical structures of science, from which constructs are built.
practical solutions to the problems: this structure is complemented by the data from
said problem.
Empirical: It is based on the application of experiments to identify relevant data.
the irrelevant and the true from the false.
Pragmatic: The Systems Approach generates an action-oriented result.
Integrator: Involves the entirety of the system's elements.
4. Differences between the traditional approach and the systematic approach.
The traditional approach conceives the object of scientific research as a collection of
isolated components, from whose properties they tried to deduce those of the whole object, without
consider the interactions between the parts; while the systems approach conceives the
Research object as a system and studies all of its components.
same, as well as their interactions, taking into account the environment in which it
unfolds and the interactions between both.
5. Areas of thought; cybernetics, general theory of systems and
the theory of information.
a) Cybernetics: Based on the principle of feedback or circular causality and the
homeostasis; it explains the communication and control mechanisms in machines and the
living beings that help understand the behaviors generated by these systems
which are characterized by their purposes, motivated by the pursuit of some objective, with
self-organization and self-control capabilities. Cybernetics provides
mechanisms for goal pursuit and self-controlled behavior. In its
in a broader sense, it is defined as the science of effective organization, it states that
the laws of complex systems are invariant, not only in the face of transformation of
its subject matter, but also its content whether neurophysiological, automotive, social or
economic.
b) the general theory of systems: It was developed by Ludwin Von Bertalanffy around
from the 1920s/1930s, and it is characterized by being a theory of universal principles
applicable to systems in general. The General Theory of Systems does not seek to solve
problems or trying practical solutions, but rather producing theories and formulations
conceptual frameworks that can create conditions for application in empirical reality.
The theory of the systems, no search analogies superficial
that are scientifically useful otherwise those similarities that allow application
identical laws to different phenomena, which allows finding common characteristics in
diverse systems. Therefore, from there, the possibility was evidenced that a
discipline will use methods developed by another.
c) the theory of information: This introduces the concept of information as a magnitude
measurable through an isomorphic expression of negative entropy in physics, and develops the
principles of its transmission. The mathematicians who have developed this theory have
concluded that the formula of information is exactly the same as the formula of the
entropy, but with the opposite sign:
a) INFORMATION = - ENTROPY
b) INFORMATION = NEGENTROPY
The more complex the systems are in terms of their number of states and
relationships, the greater the energy that these systems desist both from obtaining the
information such as its processing, decision, storage and/or communication.