A Cooperation Model Applied in a Kindergarten

The need for collaboration in a global world has become a key factor for success for many organizations and individuals. However in several regions and organizations in the world, it has not happened yet. One of the settings where major obstacles occur for collaboration is in the business arena, mai...

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Published inJournal of systemics, cybernetics and informatics Vol. 9; no. 5; pp. 48 - 56
Main Authors Jose I. Rodriguez, Pablo Nuño
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published International Institute of Informatics and Cybernetics 01.10.2011
Subjects
Collaboration
Cooperation
Essential Abilities
Interactions
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Summary:The need for collaboration in a global world has become a key factor for success for many organizations and individuals. However in several regions and organizations in the world, it has not happened yet. One of the settings where major obstacles occur for collaboration is in the business arena, mainly because of competitive beliefs that cooperation could hurt profitability. We have found such behavior in a wide variety of countries, in advanced and developing economies. Such cultural behaviors or traits characterized entrepreneurs by working in isolation, avoiding the possibilities of building clusters to promote regional development. The needs to improve the essential abilities that conforms cooperation are evident. It is also very difficult to change such conduct with adults. So we decided to work with children to prepare future generations to live in a cooperative world, so badly hit by greed and individualism nowadays. We have validated that working with children at an early age improves such behavior. This paper develops a model to enhance the essential abilities in order to improve cooperation. The model has been validated by applying it at a kindergarten school.
ISSN:1690-4524