On Organizational Learning

By Chris Argyris

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1557862621
• ISBN13: 9781557862624
• Release Date: January 1993
• Publisher: Blackwell Publishers
• Length: 450 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Excellent

very good book, helped me a lot to understand the single and double loop learning identified by the author.

A collection of essays from a master

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