Emotion: the missing part of systems methodologies
Wang, Catherine L. Ahmed, Pervaiz K.
Wang, Catherine L.
Ahmed, Pervaiz K.
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2003
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This conceptual paper first examines the critical evolutionary stage of systems methodologies – from hard systems to soft systems, and elaborates their different focuses. This paper further explores the granularity of the “softness” of systems methodologies, and identifies a missing part: emotion. The emotional aspect of systems is associated to various soft elements of systems methodologies, such as value, perception, human well-being, creativity and learning. Unfortunately, existing literature does not demonstrate a sufficient consideration of the role of emotion in systems methodologies. This paper incorporates the emotional aspect and discusses the role of emotion in effective systems methodologies.
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Kybernetes, 32(9/10):1283-1296
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0368492X