The Individual and Organization: Some Problems of Mutual Adjustment

by Chris Argyris

Paperback

Published January 1, 1957

About the author

Chris Argyris is a director of elite strategy consulting firm, the Monitor Group, and is the James Bryant Conant Professor of Education and Organizational Behavior at Harvard Business School.

Agyris's early research focused on the unintended consequences for individuals of formal organizational structures, executive leadership, control systems, and management information systems, and on how individuals adapted to change those consequences. He then turned his attention to ways of changing organizations, especially the behavior of executives at the upper levels of organization.

During the past decade, Argyris has been developing, a theory of individual and organizational learning in which human reasoning (not just behavior) becomes the basis for diagnosis and action.

Reviews

[Dr. Tathagat Varma · Rating 3 out of 5]

Continues to be a highly relevant text for leaders and managers alike...

[Bilal Ahmed · Rating 3 out of 5]

good book to read,,