On the Effectiveness of Scientific Elites in the Society: A System Thinking Approach

Journal of Systems Thinking in Practice

مقالات آماده انتشار، پذیرفته شده، انتشار آنلاین از تاریخ 02 مهر 1403

نوع مقاله: Research Article

شناسه دیجیتال (DOI): 10.22067/jstinp.2024.87163.1095

نویسنده

Mitr Moubed^*

Department of Industrial Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Ardakan University

چکیده

Elites as a distinct group by a privileged status, must have a positive impact on their society. In developed countries, they can be found that contribute to improvements at national and global levels and cause more value added in different areas. However, in countries with a low elite quality rating, they cannot influence society as much and usually tend to immigrate from the country. In this paper, a system thinking approach is used to model the influences and effectiveness of elites in society and the main parameters that can improve them. The whole system in this paper, consists of the family system, education system (school and university) and society. The study shows the mechanisms that elites can influence society by causal loop diagrams. In the following, MICMAC technique is used to find the most important and influencing variables and categorize them into three main groups: The determinant variables, that are mostly influencing than dependence, for example invention and innovation. Depending variables are more dependence than influencing, for example elites’ motivation for work. The autonomous variables have low influence and low dependence. The whole model’s variables diagram shows the system as a stable one that means its results can be predicted accurately with a degree of assurance.

کلیدواژه‌ها

Elite؛ Effectiveness؛ Influence؛ System Thinking؛ System Dynamic؛ MICMAC