eye on society

Applying the Concepts and Methods of Organisational Psychology to Society

Handouts relating to Prof. John Raven's Standard Four Part Seminar

• 4 Part Seminar Outline: 2-page, printable, summary

Part I: The Raven Progressive Matrices.

• Levels of Systems Thinking by Values
• Carroll Diagram
• Hypothetical radex map showing suggested ability and learning simplexes and the content circumplex Snow
• Life Expectancy

Part II: High Level Competence

• Competencies Displayed
• Diagram 1.1 - The Context of HRM Practice
• Figure 28.2 - The assessment of the components of competence
• Figure 28.2 continued - The assessment of the components of competence
• Grid1 - A Model of Intelligence: Psychometrics, cognitive ability, and occupational performance
• Grid 2 - A Model of Competence
• Table 1 - Priorities in Child Rearing
• Why Main Goals Neglected

Part III: Creating a Genuine Educational System

• The Educational System's contribution to the destruction of the planet
• Objectives Receiving Attention: Selected and re-grouped
• Importance of Objectives: Adolescent Pupils: Selected and re-grouped
• Chart 1 -  Importance of Objectives: Adolescent Pupils
• Chart 2 - Importance of Objectives: Teachers
• Chart 3 - Objectives which teachers try to achieve
• Chart 4 - Teachers' ratings of success with which objectives are attained
• Figure 1 -  Feedback loops driving down quality of education
• Diagram 20.5/Figure 3 - New Societal Management Arrangements

Part IV: Sustainability, Governance, Socio Cybernetics, and Thanatos.

• Beyond the Oil Crisis: Possible Strategies
• Meadows Leverage Points: table
• Bertalanffy Systems Diagrams
• Global Refugees
• Mass Migration from Global Impacts
• Collapse: overall picture
• Collapse: components
• STELLA flow diagram of SDSIM
• Emerging convention for symbols in sociocybernetic diagrams
• Harich map of network of social forces
• Countries of the World in Rank HPI order
• [2 Page Landscape Format]
• [3 Page Portrait Format]
• Diagram 25.1/Figure 2 - Way forward: main components
• Diagram 20.6 - Feedback loops perpetuating non-sustainable society
• Feedback Loops Perpetuating and Damping Work Creation
• Forrester World Model and selected scenarios
• Mapping and Summing Physical Forces
• Morgan's Diagrams
• Navrotsky's diagrams of feedback loops perpetuating current society
• Some Streams of Systemic Thought - Systems Geneology
• The Club of Rome Models