Scientific paper ID 2189 : 2022/1

The System approach is of the most popular applied and theoretical methods. Every researcher claims to have understanding and applies the approach. Unfortunately, these understandings and applications very often are interpreted personally and reflect the individual understanding. This fact seriously simplifies the system concept. This is the reason to set as a goal of the publication – to provide general framework of the popular understanding of the system concept and to point the most common mistakes. The paper presents brief explanation of the some of the most popular system effects and paradoxes. The publication addresses: systematic property, connectivity, management, cause-effect concept. Some metaphors are provided to explain “observer effect”, “butterfly effect”, “domino effect”, synergy, sensitivity to initial conditions. The idea is that incorrect understanding of the system concept leads to incorrect application and results in incorrect conclusions. The paper is a part of deeper research, which deals the application of the system approach in the field of Organizational Theory. In conclusion, we may say that the system approach and the system thinking in individual perspective are in a complex iterative relation that has a systematic nature in turn.