Organizational Traps Leadership Culture Organizational Design 1st Edition by Chris Argyris ISBN 0199639647 978-0199639649

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ISBN 10: 0199639647  
ISBN 13:  978-0199639649
Author:Chris Argyris 

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 structure that has been imposed on them. They are not victims. In fact, people themselves are responsible for making the status quo so resistant to change. We are trapped by our own behavior.

Researchers and practitioners have often reflected on these things, but there is a puzzle. On the one hand, there is substantial agreement that these traps are counterproductive to effective performance. On the other hand, there is almost no focus on how organizational traps can be prevented or reduced.

This book argues that whatever theory is used to describe and understand such organizational traps should be used to design and implement interventions that reduce and prevent them. Argyris is one of the world’s leading management scholars whose work has consistently shed light on organizational problems. This book is essential reading for MBAs, managers, and consultants.

Organizational Traps Leadership Culture Organizational Design 1st Table of contents:

Part I. Why We Act Against Our Own Stated Interests

1. How We Deal with Difficult Situations

The Department of State and Secretary Rusk

Traps are Universal

Intel Corporation

Effects of Unilateral Leadership

The Perniciousness of Traps

2. Actions that Trap us

The Left–Hand–Right–Hand Case Method

Directions for Completing the Left-Hand–Right-Hand Case

A Preliminary View of the Cases

Case 1: Submerging the Primary Issue

Case 2: Closed to Learning

Case 3: Competing Models

Case 4: Easing In

Case 5: The CIO and the IT Group

Case 6: Advanced MBAs

Conclusion

3. Causes of Traps

A Theory of Action

How We Create Traps

How Model I Theory-in-Use and Defensive Reasoning Lead to Traps

Conclusion

Part II. How Conventional Approaches Bypass Traps—and What to Do About it

4. Leadership and Traps

The Quantitative Approach

Leadership: A Historiometric Approach

Leadership: Qualitative Approaches

Becoming a Conflict Competent Leader

Narcissistic Leaders and Other Personality Types

Appreciative Inquiry

Competing Commitments

Inadequacies of Current Management Research

Conclusions

5. Culture, Leadership, and Traps (co-author Ian Smith)

Productive and Counterproductive Cultures

The Andy Case

The Royal/Dutch Shell Case

Reflecting on Cultures and Traps

6. Strengthening New Approaches

Seeking Help from Outside Consultants

The Collaborative Community

Structural Approaches

The Ambidextrous Organization

Human Potential

Conclusion

Conclusion: Traps and the Human Predicament

The Attempt to Find New Ways Forward

Helping Moon Shots to Succeed

The Human Predicament

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