Alm, Irma, "Managerial Conflicts in Social System: The Ignored Significance of Ethics and Values", 1994
A social system is unlike a natural system, because its behavior is determined by ethics, values and purposes. Yet it can be compared to a natural system in terms of self-maintenance. To maintain itself, a social system reproduces roles, functions and authorities, not it's basic components, individuals. This is because, social system are purposely designed by human begins for human purposes. The ethics which guides management of social system is a kind of rule ethics relying on rules of behavior, laws, and taboos. The rule ethics and its basic value, rational calculation, disables the possibility of social system to cope with rapid or serve environmental changes. It also creates managerial conflicts which are difficult to solve within the frame of reference of the rule ethics and its association values. These conflicts are results of the tension between: control and semiotic freedom, shared culture and diversity, and command hierarchy and self-organization. To diminish these tensions, we need another kind of ethics, an increased development of human consciousness.
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