Draws together the seminal work on organizational learning done over many years by Chris Argyris to give a complete picture of his contribution in the field. This book should be useful to anyone interested in understanding how organizations work, evolve and learn. The themes of how organizations learn and how organizational politics function define the continuing importance and relevance of the key issues which the pieces in the book address. Topics covered include: organizational learning and action science; organizational effectiveness, and what inhibits it; organizational development and human resource activities; and usable knowledge and how it is inhibited. The author's focus on the defensive and protective processes which block organizations from learning has opened them up to a new form of scrutiny, and demonstrates the liberating alternatives created by scientific investigation.
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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.
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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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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 Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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 Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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 New!
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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 Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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 Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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 New!
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- Inner Contradictions of Rigorous Research (Organizational and occupational psychology) by Chris Argyris on 9 pages
- Action Science (Jossey-Bass Social and Behavioral Science Series / Jossey-Bass Management Series) by Chris Argyris on 7 pages
- Behavioral Theory of the Firm by Richard M. Cyert on 6 pages
- Knowledge for Action: A Guide to Overcoming Barriers to Organizational Change by Chris Argyris on 5 pages
- The Conduct of Inquiry: Methodology for Behavioral Science by Abraham Kaplan on 4 pages
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- Effective Philanthropy: Organizational Success through Deep Diversity and Gender Equality by Mary Ellen S. Capek in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- HR Strategy: Business Focused Individually Centred by Paul Kearns on page 182, and Back Matter
- Foundations of Human Resource Development by Richard A. Swanson in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Training Games For The Learning Organization: 48 Experiential Learning Activities by James Kirk on page 178, and page 182
- The Capacity to Govern: A Report to the Club of Rome by Yehezkel Dror in Back Matter
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