Articles for the introductory course of the master program
One of the lectures in the course: “Introduction to the master in leadership” describes the system science perspective. We recommend three different articles to get an overview of this topic.
- Leadership and Sustainability by Michael fullan. This article gives a good introduction to why leaders need “system thinking”
- The Relationship of ‘Systems Thinking’ to Action Research, by Robert Louis Flood. This article describes an extensive background to the advantages of using system thinking for practical problem solving
- The viability of using various system theories to describe organisational change, by Terence J. Sullivan. This article explains how system science theories can be used to understand complex behavior