View: System Properties

Systemic Measurable Variables

The key variables are:

• Body Temperature
• Heart Rate (Pulse)
• Blood Pressure
• Blood Electrolyte Level (Anion Gap)
• Eyesight (e.g. 20/20)
• Hearing Range
• Performance related to abilities (speed, accuracy, etc)
• Performance: achieving or exceeding personal objectives.
• Competence levels: skills, knowledge, experience, behaviors, attitudes, and beliefs.

Systemic Capabilities or Functions

These capabilities are properties of the whole person not any of the individual parts.

Work abilities:

•  Skills, Knowledge, Experience, Attitudes, Behaviors
• Specific to one or more domains of knowledge
• Specific to one or more social systems
• Setting Goals and taking actions to achieve them (taking personal responsibility)
• NOTE: these are generally the abilities that are part of an employment contract.

Mental abilities

• perceptual abilities (listening, visualizing, etc)
• cognitive abilities
• imagination abilities (creating and reflecting on mental images)
• judgment abilities (choice and decision making)
• appreciative abilities
• creative abilities (creating new or adapting existing elements based upon current abilities)
• learning abilities (ability to unlearn and learn. The skills for personal learning and changing are important: See Learning Styles and cognitive abilities.)
• communication abilities (using language to share personal mental images and coordinate actions in other people)
• Using and improving processes and tools to carry out work.
• Problem Solving and continuous improvement
• Setting goals and planning.
• Taking actions to achieve the goals.
• Maintaining health and dynamic balance

Physical abilities

• walking, running, etc
• lifting, throwing, etc
• sports abilities, etc
• Use of technology, etc

System States

Systemic Quality Properties

System Quantity Properties