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The following paper will try to explain the difficulty based on the polisemic nature of the notion of complex systems and its broadly used in diverse disciplines such as: Physics, Biology, Sociology, Economics, and Social Psychology, and Clinic Psychology, due to the indetermination and the difficulty for its terminological use for the evaluation of social organizations, and other type of systems or webs, like natural systems, or animal, because this objects, are of different nature because of the language. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

These reflexions have a theme: Humanism and organization, but from a perspective of organization and management theories. This actual debate is an answer to actual conditions on a growing dehumanizing social ambience and its correspondence over organizational environment. It is important to make it clear that these reflexions are no free of risks, as the reader will soon may face. Given the importance of this discussion the author can not override a temptation to run this adventure for a simple reason: all kind of organization is constituted by and for people. However, this premise turns out every time a bit more diffusing in society, and also especially on organizations'. This paper includes a first issue that intents a review around the debate on the notion of humanism. The second one drives to establish a comparison between human notions, from metaphors built on around social sciences and humanities with a goal placed to show some "humanist glimpses" in the organizational thought. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]