Complex Adaptive System

Upon realizing hat the college needed to alter its operations to get better performance among women, the university set up a complex adaptive system to attempt and identify various ways they could integrate their new goals into the college system (Bennet, & Bennet, 2004). They discovered a set of principles that would be employed in the school system to assess change as it occurred with time.

A complex adaptive system promotes the correlation of the various actors in the organization. Rather than promoting individual effort, they created a system that would see to the betterment of the entire organization (Plsek, & Wilson, 2001). In the complex adaptive system, the working of the individual actors is paramount to the proper functioning of the entire system. Individuals are promoted to deliver independently, but have the value they add to the organization in mind.

The interaction between the various parts of the system leads to a universally acclaimed governance system. Notably, if any one party failed in their part, then the entire system would fail in the unit task. The interaction between the unitary parts is also important for enabling unique treatment for each case (Buckley, 1998). As the system was divided into bits, while every student was likely to improve in the individual tasks, they were likely to improve differently. This difference in performance determined how each of the parties was going to respond to her.

The simple adaptive system is different from the complex adaptive system in that the simple adaptive system serves to create a uniform treatment across the board. On the contrary, the complex system promotes individualized or customized treatment on each task, hence, promoting a more productive process.

References

Plsek, P. E., & Wilson, T. (2001). Complexity, leadership, and management in healthcare organisations. Bmj, 323(7315), 746-749.

Buckley, W. F. (1998). Society–a Complex Adaptive System: Essays in Social Theory (Vol. 9). Taylor & Francis.

Bennet, A., & Bennet, D. (2004). Organizational survival in the new world: The intelligent complex adaptive system. Routledge.