The dilemma of size from a system learning perspective: the case of the kibbutz
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| adam_text | CONTENTS
List of Figures xiii
List of Tables xv
Preface xvii
I. Introduction 1
The Close Relationship Between Organizational Effectiveness,
Community Intimacy, and the Issue of Size 3
Change: Evolution or Revolution? 7
Transformation Through Experimentation and Learning 10
Why Kibbutz? 11
What Is In This Book? 13
PART I. THE DILEMMA OF SIZE
II. The Formation of a Dilemma Through Personal Inquiry into 17
the Application of Behavioral Sciences in the Kibbutz
The Kibbutz in a Nutshell: Main Features, Purpose, and
Mission Uniqueness and Success 17
Main Features 18
Formal Structure 18
Single Kibbutzim and Nationwide Movements 19
Purpose and Mission 21
In the Long Run, How Successful Is It? 22
The Practice of Conventional Science Within the Kibbutz 24
Theme One: How Utopia and Science Meet in the Kibbutz
Context 25
Theme Two: How To Close the Gap Between Knowledge
and Action 27
Theme Three: The Predicament of Change Masters 30
Theme Four: A Search for Mega Problems 32
Conclusion 34
Note 34
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III. How Big Should It Be: The Historical Perspective 35
The Odd Case of a Meta Organization in the Jordan Valley 40
Note 42
IV. A Test Against Reality: Is There an Optimal Size? 45
Five Disciplines—More Than Five Opinions 46
The Economist s View: Size as a Production Function 47
A Social Psychological Perspective: Subjective and
Objective Perceptions of Size 48
Demography: What Happens over Time? 49
Sociology: The Relationship between Size and Alienation 51
Application and Intervention 52
Is Size Important? 53
Concrete Data and Abstract Speculations 54
Scientific Discipline and Size Calibration 54
Two Perspectives on Size: Ideological versus Pragmatic 54
Key Factors: Values, Technology, Structure, Strategy, and
Adaptation 55
Optimal Size as a Dilemma 58
PART II. CASE STUDIES
V. Kibbutz Networks: Introduction to the Case Studies 61
Kibbutzim, Their Movements, and Other Forms of Meta
Organizations 61
A Simple Example: The Emergence of Trucking
Cooperatives 64
What Do They Share in Common? 65
Four Variations Around One Dilemma 67
VI. Interkibbutz Cooperation in Green:
The Regional Enterprises 69
A Problem? 72
Does the Golem Turn Against Its Creators? 72
Single Kibbutzim 74
The Movement 74
Non Kibbutz Neighbors 76
Method and Process 76
The Dynamics of Growth: Why Do They Expand? 78
Scope: Backward and Forward Integration 79
A Support Function or a Profit Generating Business? 81
From Production to Consumption 83
A Natural Development or a Matter of Choice? 83
Can the Creator Control Its Golem? 89
Contents I ix
VII. Education: The Setting Is Different but the Dilemma 93
Is the Same
The Kibbutz Education 93
Secondary Education as a Case Study 95
What Amounts to a Good Education? 95
Why Scale? 97
The Historical Perspective: Processes of Change
and Critical Crossroads 98
The Conceptual Framework: Uniqueness, Separation,
and Size 103
Present Situation: Kibbutz High School Education
in the Nineties 105
What This Means: Present Trends and Future Perspective 107
VIII. Professional Welfare Services in the Kibbutz: An Attempt
to Solve the Dilemma of Size in the Social Domain 111
Introduction: From Noah s Ark to Tower of Babel 111
The Process that Led to the Widespread Use of
Welfare Services in the Kibbutz 114
Legitimation 114
Signs of Attrition among Social Officeholders:
Less Learning and Less Local Responsibnty 115
A Parallel Attrition in the Quality of the
Federative System s Solutions 116
Alternative Options in the Form of a Welfare Model 116
A Case Study: Shall We Build One House or Two? 118
The Various Welfare Services of the Kibbutzim and Their
Evolution 123
Extension of the Welfare Model 125
Evolution of Services 126
Differential Need for Sewices 126
Interrelationships among the Various Welfare Services 128
Uniting Services on the Regional Level: Different Levels of
Integration 130
Future Outlook 133
Note 135
IX. The Transition to an Advanced Industry 137
Kibbutz in Green 137
Method 139
Two Generations of Kibbutz Industry 142
Kibbutz Industry: The Second Generation 144
The 1980s: A Maturing Industry 145
Explanations and Speculations 147
Israel s Economy 147
Structural Changes In the External World 148
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Why a Third Generation? 149
What It Implies: The Advancement From a Simple
Industry to an Advanced One 149
How Far Can the Present Kibbutz Go? 151
Kibbutz Professionals: Future Prospects 154
Manipulating Scale: Ten Scripts of
Interkibbutz Cooperation 155
Developing Scale Through Existing or
New Meta Organizations 156
Regional Organizations as Industrial Entrepreneurs 157
Interkibbutz Joint Ventures 158
Formation of Loose Partnerships within a Business
Corporation 158
Formation of Large Industry within a Big Kibbutz 159
The Employment of Hired Labor 159
Increased Reliance on External Know How 160
Sub Contracting as a Learning Process 161
Scale: A Myth or Necessity? 161
How Far Has Interkibbutz Cooperation in
Industry Gone? 162
Kibbutz Paradoxes: The Danger of Success and the
Avoidance of Risks 163
Has Industry Reached the Limits of the Existing Pradigm? 165
PART III. MANAGEMENT OF SIZE FROM
SYSTEM ORIENTED LEARNING
X. Solutions to Size as a Transition between Thought
Paradigms 169
XI. The System Learning Perspective: Theory, Methodology,
and Intervention 177
System Learning 177
The Existing Adjusted Paradigm: Competition and
Complementation between the Scientific and
the Value Oriented Approaches 181
The Educational Domain: Complement of Uniqueness
and Universahsm 184
The Regional Enterprise: A Balance of Value Oriented
Small Scale and Economic Efficiency in Agriculture 186
Split Welfare Services Contribute to a Divided
Social Reality 189
Third Generation Industries Require the Development of
System Oriented Paradigm 191
Contents I xi
Conclusion: The Management of Size by System Approach
in Conformation with the Paradigm of the
Present Management 193
XII. Conclusion: Kibbutz Experience in a Broad Perspective 197
Lessons Beyond the Kibbutz 197
Is the Bigger Better or Should Organizations Be Small
and Beautiful 198
Is, Indeed, Small Beautiful? 202
The Meta Organizations: Enjoying Both Worlds 202
Inter organization Cooperation from One More
Perspective 206
The Implicit Aspect of Inter organization Cooperation 207
Meta Organizations as Trust Building Networks 208
Complexity of Networks and Partner Autonomy 210
Incremental Change or Radical Transformation? 214
Transformations Are Not Transitions 216
Is It At All Possible: Transformation as Learning 222
Epilog 225
APPENDIX The Wisdom of the Community: A New Method of
Community Intervention 227
The Assumption of Wisdom 228
The Assumption of Wisdom s Laws: When Do
They Get Stuck? 231
An Assumption Concerning the Generality of Laws:
The Interdependence of Therapists and
Clients Rationalizations 233
Reconstruction of the Past and an Awareness of Its
Tie to the Present 235
The Connection between Wisdom and Multi Generational
Continuity 237
Bibliography 241
Index 245
List of Figures
Chapter VI
1. The basic structure of regional organizations. 71
2. Main phases of farm product processing in the cotton example. 79
3. A model of the development of regional corporation. 85
Chapter VII
1. The uniqueness continuum. 106
2. The separation continuum. 106
3. The size continuum. 107
Chapter IX
1. The Advancement Space. 150
Chapter XII
1. The structure of transformation. 218
xiii
List of Tables
Chapter VI
1. Types and Numbers of Business Units Incorporated in
Regional Enterprises (1985) 70
2. 1983 Output of Regional Enterprises in Israel (In
American Dollars) 70
Chapter VIII
1. Settlement Mapping by Welfare Professional Services 121
2. Welfare Services Maping, According to its Relative Distance
from the Movement or the Welfare Services Model 127
Chapter IX
1. Kibbutz Industry in 1986 144
2. Relative Growth of Kibbutz and Israeli Industries Between
1980 and 1984 146
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