A Method for Reconciling Dynamic Complex Conflicts among
the Hierarchy of Objectives.
Showing H. Young, Associate Professor
Chia Ping Chen, Ph. D.
Department of Business Management
National Sun Yat-Sen University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
Fax: 886-7-5252367; E-mail: syoung @mail.nsysu.edu.tw
It is important for each organization to construct the hierarchy of objectives. The
hierarchy of objectives can coordinate different parts of organization to work.
Unfortunately, there are conflicts among the hierarchy of objectives, which make
organization work poorly. However, popular management approaches, such as MBO, the
balanced scorecard, and so on, can only deal with conflicts among "behavioral complex"
objectives, but rarely can deal with conflicts among "dynamic complex" objectives. This
paper focused on conflicts among dynamic complex objectives. Firstly, we reviewed
some cases and literature to classify conflicts among dynamic complex objectives. Then,
we proposed a method for reconciling the dynamic complex conflicts among the
hierarchy of objectives. The method was developed for a system dynamics model
developed for a client organization. It adopted the Fourier series instead of the original
policy to act on the local decision point of the model. In the meanwhile, it used the
Powell optimization algorithm according to the global objective of the model to find the
value of the parameters of the Fourier series. The Fourier series with the parameter value
can produce optimal trajectory of the local decision point. That is the local objective
which will naturally match with the global objective of the organization.
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