Systems Approach to Management

The video discusses the systems approach to management, likening organizations to living organisms that interact with their environment. It explains how organizations bring in resources, undergo transformational processes, and produce outputs. The video highlights the interrelatedness of organizational systems, similar to human body systems, and how changes in one subsystem can affect others. It emphasizes the open system perspective, which considers external feedback and contrasts it with the outdated closed system perspective.

What is the primary comparison used to describe a business in the systems approach to management?

• A computer program

• A living organism

• A static structure

• A machine

In the systems approach, what is considered a crucial form of input for an organization?

• Raw materials

• Capital

• Human labor

• Feedback

How does the systems approach explain the impact of changes in one part of an organization?

• Changes are unpredictable

• Changes can influence other subsystems

• Changes are isolated to the affected part

• Changes are always beneficial

Which of the following is NOT an example of how subsystems in an organization can affect each other?

• Production affecting HR

• HR affecting marketing

• Accounting affecting sales

• IT affecting customer service

What is a key limitation of the closed system perspective in management?

• It assumes systems are interdependent

• It ignores external environmental changes

• It focuses too much on feedback

• It overemphasizes resource acquisition