The Encyclopedia
of World Problems
& Human Potential

Non-inclusive management decisions

Visualization of narrower problems

Name(s):

Parochial management decisions

Lack of popular participation in decision-making

Claim

The management of large corporations and government agencies control the means of innovation by regulating market indicators and internal technological decisions. Management patterns are not designed to include the knowledge and experience of all the groups involved in and affected by technological decisions; and it is difficult to discover how these decisions are made and who participates in important discussions.

Broader

Mismanagement

Fragmented decision-making

Narrower

Technological monoculture

Limited access to natural resource use decisions

Natural resources used for national self-interest

Centralized decisions on local technological innovation

Profit-motivated utilization of construction technology

Public non-accountability of organizations developing technology

Intellectual methods excluding popular participation in technological development

Aggravates

Insufficient images of political involvement

Limited social context in developing technology ^{[in 6 loops]}

Aggravated by

Dominance of economic motives

Poor managerial communications

Inflexible management patterns

Victimization of grassroots knowledge

Reinforced parochialism of internal values and images

Strategy(ies)

Strengthening local capacity to adapt appropriate technologies

Involving stakeholders in management decisions

Broadening management decisions

Abstaining from popular participation in decision-making

Type

(F) Fuzzy exceptional problems

About the Encyclopedia

The Encyclopedia of World Problems and Human Potential is a unique, experimental research work of the Union of International Associations. It is currently published as a searchable online platform with profiles of world problems, action strategies, and human values that are interlinked in novel and innovative ways. These connections are based on a range of relationships such as broader and narrower scope, aggravation, relatedness and more. By concentrating on these links and relationships, the Encyclopedia is uniquely positioned to bring focus to the complex and expansive sphere of global issues and their interconnected nature.

The initial content for the Encyclopedia was seeded from UIA’s Yearbook of International Organizations. UIA’s decades of collected data on the enormous variety of association life provided a broad initial perspective on the myriad problems of humanity. Recognizing that international associations are generally confronting world problems and developing action strategies based on particular values, the initial content was based on the descriptions, aims, titles and profiles of international associations.

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The Union of International Associations (UIA) is a research institute and documentation centre, based in Brussels. It was established in 1907, by Henri la Fontaine (Nobel Peace Prize laureate of 1913), and Paul Otlet, a founding father of what is now called information science.

Non-profit, apolitical, independent, and non-governmental in nature, the UIA has been a pioneer in the research, monitoring and provision of information on international organizations, international associations and their global challenges since 1907.

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