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Frederick "Fred" Edmund Emery was an Australian psychologist. He was one of the pioneers in the field of organizational development , particularly in the development of theory around participative work design structures such as self-managing teams. He was widely regarded as one of the finest social scientists of his generation. His contribution to the theory and practice of organizational life will remain important well into the 21st century, particularly amongst those who feel uncomfortable with hierarchical bureaucracy and want to replace it with something more human and democratic. Wikipedia  

✵ 27. August 1925 – 10. April 1997
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“The basic managerial idea introduced by systems thinking, is that to manage a system effectively, you might focus on the interactions of the parts rather than their behavior taken separately.”

Russell L. Ackoff and Fred Emery (1972) On purposeful systems, cited in: Lloyd Dobyns, Clare Crawford-Mason (1994) Thinking about quality: progress, wisdom, and the Deming philosophy. p. 40.

“Yet more complex are the environments we have called turbulent fields.”

In these, dynamic processes, which create significant variances for the component organizations, arise from the field itself.
Source: The Causal Texture of Organizational Environments (1963), p. 30.

“The next level of causal texturing we have called the disturbed reactive environment.”

It may be compared with Ashby's ultra-stable system or the economists' oligopolic market.
Source: The Causal Texture of Organizational Environments (1963), p. 29.

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