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Record Nr.

UNINA9910465447703321

Autore

Argyris Chris <1923->

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford, : New York, : Oxford University Press, c2000

ISBN

1-280-83338-6

0-19-803045-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (166 p.)

Disciplina

658

658.4/012

Soggetti

Business consultants

Error

Management

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

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

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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