As a by-product in the development of the Quality
Management Systems, self-organized working groups were introduced and
became a common practice in management. In the last ten years some authors
– influenced by the developments in the study of Complex Systems – have reintroduced
the self-organization concept as being the future of management. In
this approach, the description of the mechanism driving this process has been
explored to provide a method to facilitate the emergence of viable
organisational structures and to support such organizational behaviour. This
topic becomes more relevant in the present times when the community
development is more locally oriented and the communities are being
empowered to become more autonomous in the definition of the means and
results they want to improve their quality of live. It is within this context that in
order to facilitate self-organization processes – in a rural community engaged in
a independent regeneration program –this research suggest the use of a model
inspired in both cybernetics and the self-organization in a biological system