INDIVIDUAL COMPETENCE AND GROUP-BEHAVIOR WITHIN A LIVING SYSTEM

This paper contains a report from a study of how individual humans exp loit their competence in group work during a workshop, The intention o f the study was to know how well groups of workshop participants would apply to the theories of living systems and of organization science a bout gatekeepers and the organizational structure mentioned by H. Minz berg (Minzberg 1983). The workshop population characteristics and its program procedure are described. A method for the study is created. Th e method builds on a graphical model of living systems theory. An atte mpt to test the method is carried out by studying the behavior of work shop groups.