Chris Argyris was an American business theorist and professor at Yale School of Management and Harvard Business School.
11 Facts About Chris Argyris
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Chris Argyris grew up in Irvington, New Jersey, and Athens, Greece.
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Chris Argyris obtained his MA in 1947, and joined the University of Kansas, where he obtained his MSc in Psychology and Economics in 1949.
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In 1951 Argyris started his academic career at Yale University as part of the Yale Labor and Management Center where he worked under its director and an early influence, E Wight Bakke.
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Chris Argyris was active as director of the consulting firm Monitor in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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Chris Argyris received an Honorary Doctor of Laws degree from the University of Toronto in 2006 and a Doctor of Science award from Yale University in 2011.
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Chris Argyris died on November 16,2013, age 90, and is buried at Linwood Cemetery in Weston, Massachusetts.
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Chris Argyris then shifted his focus to organizational change, in particular exploring the behaviour of senior executives in organizations, in Interpersonal Competence and Organizational Effectiveness and Organization and Innovation.
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Chris Argyris has developed this thinking in Overcoming Organizational Defenses and Knowledge for Action.
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Chris Argyris believed that managers who treat people positively and as responsible adults will achieve productivity.
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Chris Argyris came to the conclusion that problems with employees are the result of mature personalities managed using outdated practices.