Talk:Human Systems Intervention

Requested move

The following is a closed discussion of the proposal. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

The result of the proposal was moved as non-controversial user to mainspace move. --RegentsPark (sticks and stones) 05:40, 7 November 2009 (UTC)

User:Jconklin/Human Systems Intervention → Human Systems Intervention — - [This is my first attempt to create a page for Wikipedia. I believe that this topic will fill a gap that currently exists in the encyclopedia, and that will help to integrate some existing information as well as provide new infomration about an important topic. I am not familiar with Wikipedia procedure, but I gather that by putting this here, somebody will either move the page into Wikipedia itself or will in any event communicate back to me. -- James Conklin] --Jconklin (talk) 20:13, 30 October 2009 (UTC)

• Two comments: you have references listed at the bottom of the page, but you haven't attributed them to the parts of your article to which they are relevant. See WP:REFB for an intro to references. Secondly, there is already an article on Intervention (counseling). Would it be more appropriate to simply merge the information in this article into the appropriate section of Intervention (counseling)? SnottyWong talk 13:47, 31 October 2009 (UTC)

• Thanks for the two suggestions. Yes, I did not realize that references needed to be handled as in a scholarly article. I was thinking more along the lines of "further reading". I will look at this. As for as the second point goes (about merging this with Intervention-counseling), that article is specifically about interventions aimed at individuals who have gotten themselves into unfortunate situations. My article is the discipline of intervening into human systems, most often social groups such as public sector organizations, private sector companies, community associations, not-for-profit organizations. This is quite different. A fundamental principle of the discipline is to view te social group as a system that holds itself together over time, so the key to the intervention is to understand the dynamic that is characteristic of that particular system, so you can select the appropriate target and design the appropriate intervention activities. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jconklin (talk • contribs) 21:41, 31 October 2009 (UTC)

• Please take another look. I have changed the article to explicitly cite the references, and created a further reading section. What do you think? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jconklin (talk • contribs) 13:47, 1 November 2009 (UTC)

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Every adjective gets a prize

In my own note taking, my format is heavily optimized for skimming. A big part of this is exploding out inline lists. One of the features of this approach is making it visible at a glance how spammy the synopsis is. I immediately discovered that this entire lead is listicles on steroids.

Human Systems Intervention is the

• design
• implementation

of interventions in social settings where adults are confronted with the need to change:

• perspectives
• attitudes
• actions.

Depending on the

• philosophical orientation
• theoretical orientation

of the intervener, the process can be approached as a:

• planned
• systematic
• collaborative activity.

The field of HSI is based on social science research that seeks to:

• understand social change
• improve the effectiveness of intervening

in a diverse range of social systems.

Researchers and practitioners who work in this area view human collectives

• small groups
• teams
• community groups
• public and private sector organizations

as systems that behave in ways generally consistent with:

• general
• open
• complex adaptive

systems theory.

They see social change as a process of:

• adaptation
• learning

that can be studied and supported at:

• individual
• group
• larger social system levels.

Larger system levels include:

• organizational
• network.

The field views human systems as:

• dynamic
• changing
• existing within a wider social context
  • with which it has a mutually influential relationship.

Some practitioners design and deliver within the context of organization development, relying on:

• action research
• action learning approaches.

Nobody enjoys reading this kind of thing for this length of time. Every adjective gets a prize (but at least they don't get Oscar acceptance speeches).

Is there a way to approach the lead at a deeper level? One would hope so, but I don't have such a thing at the tip of my tongue right now. — MaxEnt 00:57, 26 April 2023 (UTC)