System Engineering and Productivity

System Engineering and Productivity

Designing a System and Institutional Analysis for Achieving Family Economic Productivity Using the Viable System Model

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors
1 Corresponding author: Assistant Professor, Department of Progress Engineering, School of Management Economics and Progress Engineering, Iran University of Science & Technology, Tehran, Iran
2 Ph.D. Student, Department of Intelligent Systems Engineering, School of Industrial Engineering, Iran University of Science & Technology, Tehran, Iran
3 Professor, Department of Intelligent Systems Engineering, School of Industrial Engineering, Iran University of Science & Technology, Tehran, Iran
Abstract
In the country's five-year development plans, it is emphasized that one-third of economic growth should come from productivity. The family, as a unit of production and consumption of resources, plays an effective role in managing the flow of productivity. In the present study, first, in order to formulate a national macro-map and institutional division of labor, governance goals were set in order to achieve family economic productivity (governance issues system), and then, by applying the sustainable systems model and adapting it to the functional reference model prepared, the actors and role-makers of the family economic productivity issue in sustainable subsystems were analyzed. With library studies and interviews with experts, the institutional mapping approach was applied by using task-function and institution-function matrices to separate governance goals. Also, the role-making of actual actors based on the proposed functional framework in achieving each governance goal was analyzed. The importance of sustainable modeling, in terms of macro-architecture based on a comprehensive and systemic view, is the analysis and correct placement of actors in order to ensure the stability and survival of the system. The results show that in all goals and issues of the family economy from a governance perspective, either the actual actors have a weak role to play or there is no specific custodian to solve the problem and a severe vacuum is felt in the role-players. The general approach in the desired situation is to reduce the managerial role of government institutions and move towards empowering and supporting the family.

Highlights

  • Developing a national institutional map for enhancing family economic productivity.
  • Identifying weak role performance and severe institutional gaps in achieving family productivity goals.
  • Shifting from governmental direct control toward empowerment-oriented policies that ensure systemic sustainability and coordinated institutional roles.

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