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Integrating the Individual and the Organization (Hardcover)
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Integrating the Individual and the Organization (Hardcover)
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The emphasis on organizational change in the corporate life of
recent years-including job redesign, autonomous groups, high
performance work systems, and the redesign of control systems-owes
a great deal to the pioneering work of Chris Argyris.This book
examines how individuals in organizations can become more
effective, in turn making organizations more effective. It explores
the conventional pyramidal structure of organizations, in which
there is top-down control by managers over workers, and examines
their negative consequences. These include organizational injustice
and eventually irrational decision-making. Argyris also discusses
the characteristic learning system of the modern organization,
which he describes as "single-loop" in character. This system, he
argues, is only adequeate enough to permit the organization to
implement existing policies. It does not permit the more difficult
and comprehensive task of questioning underlying goals and
assumptions, which he terms "doubt loop" learning. In this kind of
learning, the organization is able to confront the more difficult
problems that affect organizations in a time of transition.In his
new introduction, Argyris reviews the strengths and limitations of
the argument advanced in Integrating the Individual and the
Organization. He describes why the pyramidal structure endures, and
why creating a self-learning organization is an even more
challenging task than he has imagined. The book will be of interest
to professionals with a long-standing interest in organizational
development as well as those just entering the field, managers
confronting the challenge of organization change, and researchers
in organizational behavior and theory.
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