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Organizational Traps Leadership, Culture, Organizational Design

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ISBN-10: 0199639647

ISBN-13: 9780199639649

Edition: 2012

Authors: Chris Argyris

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Anyone who has spent time in an organization knows that dysfunctional behavior abounds. Conflict is frequently avoided or pushed underground rather than dealt with openly. At the same time, the same arguments often burst out again and again, almost verbatim. Turf battles continue for extended periods without resolution. People nod their heads in agreement in meetings, and then rush out of the room to voice complaints to sympathetic ears in private. Worst of all, when people are asked if things will ever change, they throw up their hands in despair. They feel like victims trapped in an asylum.And people often are trapped. But they are not trapped by some oppressive regime or organizational…    
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Book details

List price: $68.95
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication date: 1/5/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 5.51" wide x 8.50" long x 0.46" tall
Weight: 0.858
Language: English

Chris Argyris was born in 1923. He holds an A.B in psychology from Clark University, an M.A. in psychology and economics from Kansas University, and a Ph.D in organizational behavior from Cornell University. He has taught at Yale University and at Harvard, where he currently is the James Bryand Conent professor in the graduate schools of business administration and education. Argyris has written more than 20 books that aspire to enable readers to create organizations and deal with management and the changing face of the corporate world. Organizational Learning II : Theory, Method and Practice, Overcoming Organizational Defenses, and Integrating the Individual and the Organization are a few…    

Introduction
Why we Act Against our own Stated Interests
How we Deal with Difficult Situations
Actions that Trap us
Causes of Traps
How Conventional Approaches Bypass Traps - and What to do about it
Leadership and Traps
Culture, Leadership, and Traps
Strengthening New Approaches
Conclusion: Traps and the Human Predicament