Flawed Advice and the Management Trap : How Managers Can Know When They're Getting Good Advice and When They're Not.
Title:
Flawed Advice and the Management Trap : How Managers Can Know When They're Getting Good Advice and When They're Not.
Author:
Argyris, Chris.
ISBN:
9780198030454
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (271 pages)
Contents:
Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Part I: Getting Flawed Advice -- 1 Inconsistent and Unactionable Advice -- 2 Organizational Consequences of Using Inconsistent Advice -- 3 Why Flawed Advice Persists -- 4 Human Resources Practices -- 5 Concluding Observations -- Part II: Finding a Model that Works -- 6 Critiquing Advice -- 7 Appraising Performance: The Dilemmas -- 8 Evaluating Group Performance -- 9 Generating Internal Commitment to Values -- 10 Generating Internal Commitment to Implementing Strategy (with Roger Martin) -- 11 Building Generic Competence in Organizational Learning -- 12 Summary -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X.
Abstract:
In this pioneering work, Argyris, one of the world's leading organizational thinkers, reviews a wide array of business advice from the best and brightest thinkers and consultants and concludes that as appealing as their ideas may be, most of them are simply not workable. They are too full of abstract claims, logical gaps, and inconsistencies, to be useful. And ironically, even when their recommendations are implemented correctly, the result is often failure.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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