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Employee intention focuses an individual's attention on tasks that contribute most to the organisation's purpose. In an ideal scenario, employees' personal intentions for their life and career (core intentions) should dovetail in some way with the organization's purpose. | Employee intention focuses an individual's attention on tasks that contribute most to the organisation's purpose. In an ideal scenario, employees' personal intentions for their life and career (core intentions) should dovetail in some way with the organization's purpose. | ||
[[Stafford Beer]] proposed '''POSIWID ''': The purpose of a system is what it does | [[Stafford Beer]] proposed '''POSIWID'''. | ||
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|The purpose of a system is what it does.<br>There is <u>no point in claiming that the purpose of a system is to do what it constantly fails to do.</u> | |||
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Systems theorists widely use the term to counter the notion that the purpose of a system can be read from the intentions of those who design, operate, or promote it. When a system's side effects or unintended consequences reveal that its behavior is poorly understood, then the POSIWID perspective can balance political understandings of system behavior with a more straightforwardly descriptive view. | Systems theorists widely use the term to counter the notion that the purpose of a system can be read from the intentions of those who design, operate, or promote it. When a system's side effects or unintended consequences reveal that its behavior is poorly understood, then the POSIWID perspective can balance political understandings of system behavior with a more straightforwardly descriptive view. | ||