The Critical Systems Thinking (CST) as a Path for Acknowledging Human Dignity in the Organizations

Abstract

Modern organizations of the so called ‘modernity’ era have been characterised by a high degree of Systematisation in their operations which involves a high degree of specialisation. This has resulted in an almost unbreakable hierarchical order and a strict control on the people who execute the task related operations, who, for this reason, turn out to resemble the pieces of a chess game. “The different pieces of chess are only defined by the functions given by the game rules...these can be substituted by any other without losing their identity. As long as these are moved according to the game rules...its properties have no effect on the system. (Llano, 1994:50)