Impacto de la biología en los modelos de gestión y control organizacional

Desde el inicio de las organizaciones han existido modelos de control rígidos como los sistemas mecanicistas y formales en donde la perspectiva racional sobresale y no se tienen en cuenta los aspectos humanos en el diseño de los sistemas. Estos modelos de control rígidos, estandarizados y centralizados suponen un problema para el adecuado desarrollo estratégico y operativo de las organizaciones. Sin embargo, desde los sistemas biológicos se pueden observar aportes de autores que destacan la ausencia de control y su consecuente funcionamiento armónico a través de propiedades como la auto-organización y la emergencia. De esta forma, este artículo de revisión tiene como objetivo identificar las aproximaciones teóricas que se han realizado en torno a los principales aportes que los modelos biológicos han hecho a la gestión administrativa y específicamente al control organizacional mediante el análisis de la producción bibliográfica realizada en los últimos 10 años.

Colamus humanitatem : Nurturing human nature

In an essay on anger, the ancient philosopher Seneca warns of the futility of harboring negative emotions given the imminence of death—the ultimate human equalizer. Ancient philosophers like Seneca believed that emotions are based on cognitions (beliefs) and are therefore modifiable through spiritual exercises. Modern research shows that the emotional and cognitive aspects of human psychology are malleable (nurture), but also require gene expression (nature). A parallel between individual behavior and socio-political forces suggests a framework for the current environmental crisis— another human equalizer. Two critical questions are suggested: Is the amassed experience of the last few centuries sufficient to lead to corrective measures that would avoid environmental degradation? Or would a catastrophic event with significant longterm environmental degradation have to occur before corrective measures reach consensus at the socio-political level? 

Human development in an evolutionary perspective

This article presents an evolutionary perspective to the study of human development. Some general assumptions for the study of development are discussed and the principal building blocks of evolutionary psychology are presented. One of them is that there is a universal human nature (which is modulate also by particular conditions of each context) and the cognitive architecture of human beings is the resulted of interactions between genes and environment. Based on those, and other assumptions, directions for the study of child development in an evolutionary stance are discussed, along with the considerations of context and development. Thus, it is assumed there is a relationship between phylogenies and ontogenetic development (the ontogenesis needs to be understood also as a product of evolution), considering the inseparability of biological, socio-cultural, cognitive emotional aspects that constitute this development. It has been concluded that the evolutionary developmental psychology has scientific relevance because it broadens our vision on human development.