From Complex Organizations with Simple Jobs to Simple Organizations with Complex Jobs

Production Scheduling of Complex Jobs with Simulation

A simulation approach is presented for planning and scheduling a flow of complex jobs for job shop like production systems. Machines may have their own specific restrictions and properties such as relative production speed, set up characteristics and scheduling rules. A production job consists of a set of tasks represented by a directed activity network in which an activity is defined as a sing...

Simple Models of Hierarchical Organizations

This paper develops analytical models for analyzing hierarchical organizations, through the creation and use of little models of organizational interaction to balance the communication time within and between organizational hierarchies. Then it examines these theoretical models on the basis of a data set of 678 school systems in Texas. Analysis of the dataset suggests that, in general, simple m...

From Simple to Complex Compounds

Leadership in Complex Organizations

This paper asks how complexity theory informs the role of leadership in organizations. Complexity theory is a science of complexly interacting systems; it explores the nature of interaction and adaptation in such systems and how they influence such things as emergence, innovation, and fitness. We argue that complexity theory focuses leadership efforts on behaviors that enable organizational eff...

Simple Structures with Complex Symmetry

We define the automorphism spectrum of a computable structure M, a measurement of the complexity of the symmetries of M, and prove that certain sets of Turing degrees can be realized as automorphism spectra, while certain others cannot.