Action Science/Argyris. 1. Action Science Helping to build better relationships at work. Aims.

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Remove barriers of change caused by defensive interpersonal and organisational relations thus reducing ineffectiveness. Improve problem-solving skills and make incremental changes to external environment, but not exclusively. Primarily focus on looking inward, learning new frameworks and establishing new routines. Points for Reflection on Learning Business success is highly dependant on the ability to learn. Effectiveness was evident in the interrelationship between organisational learning and a balanced score card.

According To Argyris

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New Ways of Working Organisations can reverse the cycle and learn to understand the difference between their espoused and actual theories of action.

Chris Argyris is a director of elite strategy consulting firm, the Monitor Group, and is the James Bryant Conant Professor of Education and Organizational Behavior at Harvard Business School. Agyris's early research focused on the unintended consequences for individuals of formal organizational structures, executive leadership, control systems, and management information systems, and on how indivi Chris Argyris is a director of elite strategy consulting firm, the Monitor Group, and is the James Bryant Conant Professor of Education and Organizational Behavior at Harvard Business School. Agyris's early research focused on the unintended consequences for individuals of formal organizational structures, executive leadership, control systems, and management information systems, and on how individuals adapted to change those consequences. He then turned his attention to ways of changing organizations, especially the behavior of executives at the upper levels of organization. During the past decade, Argyris has been developing, a theory of individual and organizational learning in which human reasoning (not just behavior) becomes the basis for diagnosis and action.