Organizational cybernetics

In developmental psychology and moral, political, bioethical philosophy, autonomy is the capacity to make an informed, uncoerced decision. Autonomous organizations or institutions are independent or self-governing. Autonomy can also be defined from a human resources perspective, where it denotes a (relatively high) level of discretion granted to an employee in their work. In such cases, autonomy is known to generally increase job satisfaction. Self-actualized individuals are thought to operate autonomously of external expectations. In a medical context, respect for a patient's personal autonom

upright=1.35|thumb|right|A McDonald's franchise in [[Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada]] Franchising is a business practice where a company licenses its business model to another company, or more precisely, where the franchisor licenses some or all of its knowhow, procedures, intellectual property and other rights to sell its branded products and services to a franchisee. In return, the franchisee pays certain fees and agrees to comply with certain obligations, typically set out in a franchise agreement.

thumb|3D representation of a living cell during the process of mitosis, example of an autopoietic system

form of enclosed place of work and residence

term for extra-cellular interstitial fluid surrounding bodily organs

early stage product design and development technique

set of interacting or interdependent entities forming an integrated whole that are able to respond to environmental changes, analogous to physiological homeostasis or evolutionary adaptation in biology

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