Article ID: | iaor20082465 |
Country: | United Kingdom |
Volume: | 58 |
Issue: | 8 |
Start Page Number: | 1056 |
End Page Number: | 1064 |
Publication Date: | Aug 2007 |
Journal: | Journal of the Operational Research Society |
Authors: | Harnden R., Espinosa A. |
Keywords: | cybernetics |
Stafford Beer created Team Syntegrity as a methodology for social interaction that predisposes participants towards shared agreement among varied and sometimes conflicting interests, without compromising the legitimate claims and integrity of those interests. This paper outlines the methodology and the underlying philosophy, describing several applications in a variety of countries and contexts, indicating why such an approach causes us to re-think more traditional approaches to group decision processes, and relating Team Syntegrity to other systems approaches.