organization with practices of a global ethic. From contributors of the last century of
systemic and cybernetic perspectives applied to organizational development, for
example Senge (1990), it is a new and challenging enterprise to seek research
methodologies and their applications at the global level to global organizations. To
reiterate an earlier delimitation, I question whether we can presume generalizability of
micro (local and regional) levels of description to the macro (global) level. Moreover,
this presumption is widely held among those who adopt and promulgate a systemic
and cybernetic approach to the study, understanding, and amelioration of the human
predicament associated with negative globalizing trends (e.g. adverse climate change,
resource depletion, disease pandemics, and re-urbanization of cities). The pursuit of
effective methodological applications is a major, exciting, and challenging aim of the
present century, as we bear witness to various globalizing trends uniting all peoples
into one planetary civilization.