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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.
Double-loop learning is used when it is necessary to change the mental model on which a decision depends. Unlike single loops, this model includes a shift in understanding, from simple and static to broader and more dynamic, such as taking into account the changes in the surroundings and the need for expression changes in mental models. [3]
Action research is an interactive inquiry process that balances problem-solving actions implemented in a collaborative context with data-driven collaborative analysis or research to understand underlying causes enabling future predictions about personal and organizational change.
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).
Learning theorist David A. Kolb was highly influenced by the earlier research conducted by John Dewey and Jean Piaget. [citation needed] Kolb's reflective model, which also draws from the works of Kurt Lewin, [17] highlights the concept of experiential learning and is centered on the transformation of information into knowledge. [18]
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 ...
Wendell L French and Cecil Bell defined organization development (OD) at one point as "organization improvement through action research". [21] If one idea can be said to summarize OD's underlying philosophy, it would be action research as it was conceptualized by Kurt Lewin and later elaborated and expanded on by other behavioral scientists ...
Action research in the workplace took its initial inspiration from Lewin's work on organizational development (and Dewey's emphasis on learning from experience). Lewin's seminal contribution involves a flexible, scientific approach to planned change that proceeds through a spiral of steps, each of which is composed of 'a circle of planning, action, and fact-finding about the result of the ...