Modern Organization Theory

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The paper explains how this theory, which analyzes the nature of structural, interdependent relationships that control and determine organizational character, is derived from open system theory. The paper identifies the different groups existing within the system and the key processes linking these five basic elements. It also defines the nine characteristics common to all open systems.

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"Modern organization theory has its roots in general system theory as interpreted by the organismic, open system theory of Ludwig von Bertalanffy (Shafritz & Ott, 305). Thus, system theory owes a large debt to the biological and ecological sciences, from which it acquired the tenet that human organization is an organic system in which everything is related to everything else and a change in one element of the system will affect all other relationships in the system (Scott & Mitchell, 54). Modern organization theory consists of two basic models: the systems model and the contingency model."

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