Credits: 3 (3-0-0)
Description
Module I: Systems thinking in management; Hard and soft systems thinking; open systems thinking; Analytical and systems approaches; System concepts, principles and metaphors; General systems theory and cybernetics.
Module II: Theory building with causal loop diagrams; Feedback loop structures; Linking feedback, stock and flow structures; Tutorial on Stella; Case Studies on system dynamics modelling.
Module III: Soft systems methodology; Flexible systems thinking; Management of continuity and change; Interpretive systems model.