ABSTRACT

The conflict arose between a business wanting to make more parts and the workforce who provides the labor to make the parts. A short, concise definition of Human Systems Dynamics is: “An emerging field of research and practice that takes into account the principles of complexity, nonlinear dynamics, and chaos theory as it applies to the study of groups as they live and work in teams, organizations, and communities.” While analysis and action for material and technical systems moved forward along one path, theories about human intelligence moved along a very different path. It was until the 1980s that developments in theory and demands in practice generated a new approach to Human Systems Dynamics.