| Session Title: Integrating Evaluation Into Everyday Organizational Practice: A Complex Systems Perspective |
| Think Tank Session 863 to be held in Lone Star B on Saturday, Nov 13, 2:50 PM to 4:20 PM |
| Sponsored by the Systems in Evaluation TIG |
| Presenter(s): |
| Srik Gopalakrishnan, New Teacher Center, srik2004@gmail.com |
| Discussant(s): |
| Royce Holladay, Human Systems Dynamics Institute, rholladay@hsdinstitute.org |
| Abstract: Making evaluation an integral part of an organization’s everyday operations has long been held as an ideal in the field. This would mean that evaluation is integrated into organizational norms and culture and becomes a part of the organization’s work ethic. However, organizations are complex systems and making evaluation embedded in organizational culture entails a deep understanding of how complex systems, especially complex human systems, function. This session will explore complexity from a human systems dynamics perspective and engage participants in the question, “what would it take to integrate evaluation into ongoing practice in a complex human system?” Break-out groups will address various facets of complexity such as self-organization, simple rules and dynamical change and implications of those facets for specific approaches to integrating evaluation as part of organizational practice. The session will be structured in a modified “world café” format so that participants have a chance to rotate through several discussions. |