| Description |
xv, 464 pages ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction: The Evolving Field of Organizational Learning -- 1. Making Sense of Limited Learning -- 2. Tacit Knowledge and Management -- 3. Why Individuals and Organizations have Difficulty in Double-loop Learning -- 4. Crafting a Theory of Practice: The Case of Organizational Paradoxes -- 5. Today's Problems with Tomorrow's Organizations -- 6. Teaching Smart People How to Learn -- 7. A Leadership Dilemma: Skilled Incompetence -- 8. Organizational Learning and Management Information Systems -- 9. Strategy Implementation: An Experiment in Learning -- 10. How Strategy Professionals Deal with Threat: Individual and Organizational -- 11. The Dilemma of Implementing Controls: The Case of Managerial Accounting -- 12. Human Problems with Budgets -- 13. Bridging Economics and Psychology: The Case of the Economic Theory of the Firm -- 14. Good Communication that Blocks Learning -- 15. Reasoning, Action Strategies, and Defensive Routines: The Case of OD Practitioners |
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16. Inappropriate Defenses against the Monitoring of Organization Development Practice -- 17. Do Personal Growth Laboratories Represent an Alternative Culture? -- 18. Actionable Knowledge: Design Causality in the Service of Consequential Theory -- 19. Field Theory as a Basis for Scholarly Consulting -- 20. Unrecognized Defenses of Scholars: Impact on Theory and Research -- 21. Seeking Truth and Actionable Knowledge: How the Scientific Method Inhibits Both -- 22. Problems and New Directions for Industrial Psychology -- 23. The Incompleteness of Social-Psychological Theory: Examples from Small Group, Cognitive Consistency, and Attribution Research -- 24. Dangers in Applying Results from Experimental Social Psychology -- 25. Making Knowledge More Relevant to Practice: Maps for Action -- 26. Participatory Action Research and Action Science Compared -- 27. Some Unintended Consequences of Rigorous Research |
| Notes |
Previous ed.: 1992 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Organizational behavior.
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Organizational change.
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Organizational effectiveness.
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Organizational learning.
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| LC no. |
98054396 |
| ISBN |
0631213082 (cased) |
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0631213090 (paperback) |
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