The Organic Systems Framework

A New Paradigm for Understanding and Intervening in Organizational Life

Barry Oshry

• Publisher: Triarchy Press Ltd
• Year: 2019
• Topic: Business
• eBook ISBN:
  9781911193630
• Subtopic: Management
• Index: Business

A proposal for the first 'accredited' OD paradigm In Part 1 of this compelling book, veteran researcher and practitioner Barry Oshry demonstrates beyond doubt that, despite the frequent references to paradigms and paradigm shifts in the management and organization literature, there are no scientific paradigms in this field as Thomas Kuhn defined them in his landmark essay. He then makes a clear and convincing case for the Organic Systems Framework (OSF) to be recognised as a legitimate candidate for paradigm status, one from which research that extends, elaborates, tests, and applies the framework follows naturally. Along the way he sets out clearly and succinctly his theories of: • Power and Love • Tops, Middles and Bottoms • How whole systems individuate, integrate, differentiate and homogenize... (so this is the shortest and clearest account, yet, of these established and well-researched theories.) Finally, Oshry outlines the many areas of further research that would inevitably emerge if his Organic Systems Framework were to achieve paradigm status.

Table of contents

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• Contents
• Summary
• A visit to my local bookstore
• There is no new paradigm
• Pre-paradigm endless possibilities
• A proposed candidate for paradigm status
• The elements of the Organic Systems Framework
• Whole organic systems as patterns of systemic relationship
• Whole organic systems as patterns of system processes
• Scenarios resulting from blindness to system processes
• The patterns we fall into shape our consciousness
• Understanding the root of our experiences
• OSF as a paradigm candidate
• Does anyone really care about scientific paradigms?
• Summary of the Organic Systems Framework
• References