The organized community - Exploring recent forms of organizing for human engagement

Det organiserede fællesskab - Udforskning af nylige former for organisering for menneskeligt engagement

Lund, Troels

4. term

Operations and Management Engineering, Master of Science (MSc) (cand.polyt.)

2020

Denne kandidatafhandling undersøger nyere måder at organisere på, der skal styrke menneskers engagement, og betegner dem som 'organiserede fællesskaber'. For at belyse dette udvikles og anvendes en sensibiliserende ramme, der ser organisering som en problemløsningsproces og fokuserer på, hvordan fem organisatoriske delsystemer spiller sammen. Undersøgelsen kombinerer dokumentanalyse af fire tilgange—sociotekniske systemer, sociokrati, Holacracy og 'teal' organisationer—med empirisk arbejde i praksis. Heraf fremkommer en sammenhængende syntese af organiserede fællesskabers grundlæggende kendetegn: et drivende formål; et helhedsorienteret verdenssyn (at kunne bringe hele sig selv i spil); et engageret fællesskab; selvledelse; do’ocracy (dem, der gør arbejdet, får beslutningskraft); formaliseret samarbejde; evolutionær udvikling (løbende tilpasning); og radikal transparens (åben deling af information). Afhandlingen peger desuden på mulige faktorer, der kan fremme, at sådanne former opstår, og skitserer deres potentielle virkninger.

This thesis examines recent ways of organizing that aim to strengthen people’s engagement, referred to here as 'organized communities.' To study this, it develops and applies a sensitizing framework that views organizing as a problem-solving process and looks at how five organizational subsystems fit together. The research combines document analysis of four approaches—sociotechnical systems, sociocracy, Holacracy, and teal organizations—with empirical study of how they operate in practice. From this, the thesis offers a clear synthesis of the core features of organized communities: a driving purpose; a worldview of wholeness (encouraging people to bring their full selves); a committed community; self-management; do’ocracy (authority follows those who do the work); formalized collaboration; evolutionary development (continuous adaptation); and radical transparency (open information sharing). It also identifies possible factors that enable these forms to emerge and discusses their potential impact.

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organization theory ; sociocracy ; holacracy ; teal organization ; organized community ; sociotechnical systems

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