Alternative Theory Of Organization And Management
Alternative Theory of Organization and Management (ATOM) proposes a scientific approach to organization and management. Designed and developed by Seweryn Chajtman, the ATOM concept arose from a need to clarify the adoption and widespread recognition of laws and regularity that are based on strict criteria. Rationale The reasons for the creation of ATOM include: :* The accumulation of knowledge dispersed in the specialist literature of many fields and disciplines; :* Excessive one-sidedness emerging from partial approaches; :* Lack of a synthetic, coherent approach that integrates various views on organization and management; and :* The need to establish the basic paradigms of organization and management regarding issues such as the dominant position of work processes, classification of management functions, partitioning systems into subsystems, process-modeling of systems, the relationship between the concepts of organization and management, and the objective classification ...
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Science
Science is a systematic endeavor that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe. Science may be as old as the human species, and some of the earliest archeological evidence for scientific reasoning is tens of thousands of years old. The earliest written records in the history of science come from Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia in around 3000 to 1200 BCE. Their contributions to mathematics, astronomy, and medicine entered and shaped Greek natural philosophy of classical antiquity, whereby formal attempts were made to provide explanations of events in the physical world based on natural causes. After the fall of the Western Roman Empire, knowledge of Greek conceptions of the world deteriorated in Western Europe during the early centuries (400 to 1000 CE) of the Middle Ages, but was preserved in the Muslim world during the Islamic Golden Age and later by the efforts of Byzantine Greek scholars who brought Greek ...
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