QUESTIONNAIRE

1.- Wear and tear on the organization because of its daily operational
task that can lead to exhaustion, disorganization, disintegration, and
finally death.

a) Negative entropy
b) Entropy
c) Neguenthropy

2.- Make up the definition of system:

a) set of different elements that interact with each other with harmonic support
to subsist and achieve the objectives.
b) Informal organization with a “human face”, seeks to provide answers to the
problems of productivity and efficiency.
c) Formal and technical organization, looked for answers to productivity
problems and organizational efficiency.
3.- Indicates what is not a characteristic of the systems.

a) Maintain your internal cohesion (stay integrated).

b) Achieve the goals and objectives set.
c) Maintain your internal balance.
d) Adapt to the environment and the situation in which they have to operate.
e) Satisfy psychological and transcendental needs.

4.- For General Systems Theory, what are the two approaches to
systems?

a) The reductionist, which studies the simple phenomena of a system and its
subdivisions, and the synergy approach that explains the functioning of a
system as a whole and not the sum of its parts.

b) The homeostasis that allows the self-regulation of the system and the synergy
approach that explains the functioning of a system as a whole and not the
sum of its parts.

c) The generalized approach that includes systems as a whole and not as the
sum of their parts, and the reductionist approach that studies the complex
phenomena of the system and its subdivisions.

d) The topology that studies the relationship of the parts of the system and the
generalized approach that understands the systems as a whole and not as
the sum of their parts.
5.- Among the trends that seek the practical application of General
Systems Theory, we can find:

a) Electronic engineering, game theory and theory of evolution.

b) Systems engineering, game theory and relational mathematics.

c) Topology theory, factor analysis and synergy.

d) None of the above.

6.- Can you say that an organization is considered as a system?

a) Yes, because an organization works as a whole and tends to growth, where

it becomes more complex and there is interdependence.

b) No, because an organization is stable, and workers do their work

independently without knowing about the work done by their other colleagues.
 c) Yes, because an organization is stable, and workers do their work
independently without knowing about the work that their other colleagues do.

d) No, because not all tend to grow and no matter what level each employee
has, what a lower-ranking employee does will not affect those of higher rank
and vice versa.

7.- What are the goals of general systems theory?

8.- What does the term Synergy mean?

9.- What is recursion?

10.- What are the principles of general systems theory and explain an
example if it´s possible?

Hector Pereda de la Cruz 2NV3