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June 28, 1999 0631213090 978-0631213093 2
This book is essential for anyone who needs to understand how organizations work, evolve, and learn. In this new edition, Argyris discusses vital topics of current management research, such as tacit knowledge and management, so reflecting the evolving field of organizational learning.

  • Brings together the thinking of one of the world's leading management thinkers: especially in the area of action learning.

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This book is essential for anyone who needs to understand how organizations work, evolve, and learn. In this new edition, Argyris discusses vital topics of current management research, such as tacit knowledge and management, so reflecting the evolving field of organizational learning. Focusing on learning and organizational politics, the book addresses the key issues of: Organizational learning and Action Science. Organizational effectiveness and what inhibits it. Organizational development and human resource activities. Usable knowledge and how it is inhibited.

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This book is essential for anyone who needs to understand how organizations work, evolve, and learn. In this new edition, Argyris discusses vital topics of management research, such as tacit knowledge and management, so reflecting the evolving field of organizational learning.

Focusing on learning and organizational politics, the book addresses the key issues of:


  • Organizational learning and Action Science.
  • Organizational effectiveness and what inhibits it.
  • Organizational development and human resource activities.
  • Usable knowledge and how it is inhibited.

Product Details

  • Paperback: 480 pages
  • Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell; 2 edition (June 28, 1999)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0631213090
  • ISBN-13: 978-0631213093
  • Product Dimensions: 9.8 x 6.7 x 1.1 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #564,479 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Chris Argyris is the James Conant Professor of Education and Organizational Behavior Emeritus at Harvard University. He has consulted to numerous private and governmental organizations. He has received many awards including thirteen honorary degrees and Lifetime's Contributions Awards from the Academy of Management, American Psychological Association, and American Society of Training Directors. His most recent books are, Flawed Advice and the Management Trap (OUP, 1999), and Reasons and Rationalizations (OUP, 2004). A chair professorship was established in 1994 at Yale University. He is a Director Emeritus of Monitor Group.

 

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5.0 out of 5 stars A collection of essays from a master, June 30, 1997
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A collection of essays, articles, and chapter length contributions to other books. Readers new to Argyris might wish to start with "Knowledge for Action: A Guide for Overcoming Barriers to Organizational Change". "On Organizational Learning" expands and deepens what you will learn in "Knowledge for Action". The bottom line is that Argyris's work is as highly respected as the name is hard to spell. I give this book a 9 instead of a 10 only because of the academic style of the writing, the content is outstanding. - Cortlandt Wilson, Software Consultan
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very good book, helped me a lot to understand the single and double loop learning identified by the author.
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From our review of the organizational learning literatures, we draw the following issues which seem to us crystallize the most important current debates in the field. Read the first page
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personal growth laboratories, primary inhibiting loops, organizational defensive routines, individual defensive routines, productive organizational learning, secondary inhibiting loops, personal growth laboratory, mutual problem solving process, limited learning systems, limited organizational learning, scholarly consulting, defensive reasoning, interpersonal inquiry, productive reasoning, skilled unawareness, undiscussability undiscussable, scholarly consultants, escalating error, counterproductive features, organizational inquiry, governing variables, organizational defenses, client defensiveness, skilled incompetence, attribution activities
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New York, San Francisco, Academic Press, Van de Ven, References Argyris, Englewood Cliffs, American Psychologist, Harvard Business Review, Management Science, Inner Contradictions of Rigorous Research, Kurt Lewin, Psychological Review, University of Chicago Press, Yale University, Harvard Business School, New Haven, Administrative Science Quarterly, Cambridge University Press, John Wiley, Journal of Applied Psychology, Psychological Bulletin, Basic Books, Journal of Social Issues, Overcoming Organizational Defenses, Annual Review of Psychology
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