Group: Ugochi and Bishoy
- System #1:You are chief of police, how do you solve (use systems thinking)
To try to solve this problem of mass corruption in Afghanistan’s policing system, we would start by requiring all police stations to have “role calls.” By requiring commanders to report exactly who is working everyday we will be able to determine who the “ghost” policemen are. This would be our regulation aspect to the system. Then, when we determine who the “ghost” policemen are, we will be able to stop paying them, and in turn use that money to give all the real policemen and the commanders a raise. That will be our leverage point by raising morale. It will incentivize the commanders to actually report the real numbers by giving them monetary incentives. In addition, a way to increase public trust in law and order, we will make public statements to each community on who is on the police force. That way the community can feel more connected to law enforcement and feel more safe, it will create holism within the system.
2. System #2: How does she solve the hyacinth problem? Use systems approach.
To solve this problem, she should hire some of the workers in the community to help her with her business. Since her need for hyacinth is increasing substantially, she will need more than four people to cut it and collect it. Since collecting the hyacinth benefits each member of the community as a whole because it decreases the spread of disease, and makes it easier for fishermen to access the lake, they should be happy about her business, they were only upset because she was making money off of it. So, by differentiation, she can hire some workers within the community to cut the hyacinth, some to crush it, and some to bring it to the workshop, depending on their specialization. Each worker will be putting in a different input based on what their job is, but it will be to attain the same goal of creating compost and briquettes to make the lakes cleaner (equifinality). All of these jobs create holism in the system because every aspect is completing the system by making the community more safe. Our solution is multifinal because fishermen now have more space to fish, as the hyacinth is being cleared away, less disease is bring spread, workers in the community that are hired to help clear the hyacinth economically benefit from new jobs, and the hyacinth crushed and used for compost and briquettes can potentially have good environmental benefits because it is a good alternative fuel source.