Flawed advice and the management trap : how managers can when know they're getting good advice and when they're not / Chris Argyris.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Argyris, Chris, 1923-2013

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Business consultants.

Error.

Management.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (166 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : New York : Oxford University Press, c2000.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Flawed Advice and the Management Trap: How Managers Can Know When They're Getting Good Advice and When They're Not is the first book to show how and why so much of today's business advice is flawed, and how managers and executives can better evaluate advice given to their firms Practitioners and scholars agree that businesses in the coming millennium will be managed differently than firms of the 20th century. And getting there from here, according to today's best advice, will require creative change. In this pioneering work, Argyris, one of the world's leading organizational thinkers, review

Contents:

Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; 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 SummaryBibliography; Index; Footnotes

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 249-254) and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

0-19-992373-6

1-280-83338-6

0-19-803045-2

OCLC:

243588667