General Systems Theory Completed Up by Dialectical Systems Theory

Zdenka Zenko, Bojan Rosi, Matjaz Mulej, Tatjana Mlakar and Nastja Mulej

Systems Research and Behavioral Science, 2013, vol. 30, issue 6, 637-645

Abstract: Traditional sciences are narrowly specialized into selected viewpoints and parts of reality. This causes important insights and oversights that are supposed to be resolved by cybernetics and systems theory. The General Systems Theory fights over‐specialization; cybernetics grew from interdisciplinary cooperation practicing this fight. More holism and wholeness result. The Dialectical Systems Theory adds methodology to support attainment of requisite holism and wholeness by influencing human attributes and methods. This makes it universally applicable. Its applied method USOMID and De Bono's Six Thinking Hats are very close and can be combined. The new concepts of social responsibility exposing ‘interdependence and holistic approach’ apply a very comparable concept and are found helpful against the current crisis as a consequence of over‐specialization. Copyright © 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

Date: 2013
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