Human Services Organization as System
Walden University
Social Work Administration: An Ecological Perspective
SOCW 6070
Abstract
This paper focuses on how systems theories help administrators in a human services
organization build relationship and understand their employees (Lauffer, 2011). It also shows
how theories are used to solve complex problems in the community (Lauffer, 2011).
Human Services Organizations as Systems
System theory is one of the most prominent methods in leadership and management. It is
a set of distinct parts that interact to form a complex whole, the system being an organization,
and its components are the employees, assets, products, resources, and information that creates
the complex system. According to Lauffer (2011), system theory was an effort to unify thinking
about the social, biological, and physical sciences, and even modes of thought. System theory
refers to a configuration of parts connected and joined together by a web of relationships
(Lauffer, 2011). In other to know how system theory help administrators understanding the
relationships between services organization between human of the agency through the scientific
method would be beneficiary to the administrators, the employees, and the organization. System
theory explains human behavior as the intersection of the influences of multiple interrelated
systems; especially organizations (Mulroy, 2004). Also, the 20th century saw the emergence of
scientists, philosophers, economists, academics, and behavioral such as Talcott Parsons, Robert
Merton, and Carel. The three main theories of organization-environment relations are ecological,