Reasoning, Learning, and Action: Individual and Organizational

by Chris Argyris

Book Overview

A three-pronged approach to overcoming mediocrity, presented by one of the nation's top business theorist. Replete with case examples, this book details how employee reasoning, learning and... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0875895247
• ISBN13: 9780875895246
• Release Date: May 1982
• Publisher: Jossey-Bass
• Length: 500 Pages
• Weight: 1.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.3" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

A master describes how he works -- this book changed my life

Argris, a professor of industrial psychology, has published some of the most practical and insighful works of psychology I know of. In the influential book "The Fifth Discipline" Senge devotes an entire chapter specifically to Argryis's ideas and Argyris's ideas show up all over that work. In attempting to apply Argyris's ideas in business I discovered (as have others) that it applies to many areas of my life. In the process I am becoming much more self-aware of my own feelings, objectives, and values and how they color my interactions with others -- on the job and in my personal life.Argyris life work has focused on the role (or plight) of the individual in organizations. More than another of his other books, in "Reasoning, Learning, and Action" Argyris describes what he does in his seminars and with clients. The book is full of selections from transcripts of actual conversations along with an expert commentary in which the author shares with us thinking process. If I had to choose one and only one of Argyris's several books to recommend this is the one I would choose. In the preface to this book the author writes "I believe that social science should question the status quo and offer people alternatives that have been rare or not available but are highly valued (for example, systems with high trust, risk taking, and high internal commitment amoung the participants)." Argyris delivers on his intention.- Cortlandt Wilson, Software Consultant, Cortlandt Software