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Chris Argyris (July 16, 1923 – November 16, 2013 [1]) was an American business theorist and professor at Yale School of Management and Harvard Business School.Argyris, like Richard Beckhard, Edgar Schein and Warren Bennis, [citation needed] is known as a co-founder of organization development, and known for seminal work on learning organizations.
Chris Argyris described the distinction between single-loop and double-loop learning using the following analogy: [A] thermostat that automatically turns on the heat whenever the temperature in a room drops below 69°F is a good example of single-loop learning.
In Intervention Theory and Method Chris Argyris argues that in organization development, effective intervention depends on appropriate and useful knowledge that offers a range of clearly defined choices and that the target should be for as many people as possible to be committed to the option chosen and to feel responsibility for it. Overall ...
The organizational deutero-learning concept identified by Argyris and Schon [7] [8] defines when organizations learn how to carry out single-loop and double-loop learning. It has also been described as learning how to learn [ 9 ] through a process of collaborative inquiry and reflection (evaluative inquiry).
André de Waal; Jean-Baptiste Waldner - computer-integrated manufacturing; Alexandra Waluszewski (born 1956) - Swedish organizational theorist; James Watt (1736–1819) - Industrial Revolution, division of labour, standard operating procedures, cost control (1810s) Max Weber - a founder of the modern study of sociology and public administration ...
Together with Chris Argyris, Schön provided the foundation to much of the management thinking on descriptive and interventionist dimensions to learning research. [19] One of their theories hold that organizations and individuals should be flexible and should incorporate lessons learned throughout their lifespans, known as organizational learning.
To this day, getting locked up is the de facto treatment for a large percentage of addicts. Given the options available to Peterson and other addicts mid-century, it’s easy to see why Narcotics Anonymous — founded in 1953 as an offshoot of Alcoholics Anonymous — became such a success.
The concept of psychological contract became more popular among researchers starting in the 1990s, [8] but was named decades earlier in 1960 by Chris Argyris.As studies in industrial relations developed and grew more complex, it was revealed that employees are more likely to perform better in certain work environments.