Theory in Practice¶
Argyris, C., & Schön. (1974). Theory in Practice: Increasing Professional Effectiveness. Jossey-Bass.
Cited by¶
6 citations across 6 artifacts.
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Primes¶
- Dissonance
- In organisational culture, it is espoused values held against enacted behaviour, generating cynicism, attrition, or norm change.
This sourceEspoused theories held against theories-in-use (enacted behavior) generate organizational tension.
- In organisational culture, it is espoused values held against enacted behaviour, generating cynicism, attrition, or norm change.
- Nominal vs. Actual Control
- Argyris and Schön's espoused theory versus theory-in-use captures the introspective version, with self-report blind to the gap.
This sourceIntroduces espoused theory versus theory-in-use, the cleanest instance of a control existing in a declared register and an enacted register, with self-report blind to the gap by construction.
- Argyris and Schön's espoused theory versus theory-in-use captures the introspective version, with self-report blind to the gap.
Domain-specific¶
- Hazard-Control Decay
- … relation, and its instances travel as mechanism in their own right: written policy versus enforced policy in organizations, law-on-the-books versus law-in-practice, a published API contract versus actual behavior, declared versus enacted compliance, and Argyris and Schön's espoused theory versus theory-in-use.
This sourceArgyris and Schön’s theory-in-use as distinct from espoused theory — practice that is incongruent with the theory its practitioner espouses.
Supported in partVerified against the work's full text
“different [organizations], institutions, and settings so as to 190 Theory [in Practice] Functions”
- … relation, and its instances travel as mechanism in their own right: written policy versus enforced policy in organizations, law-on-the-books versus law-in-practice, a published API contract versus actual behavior, declared versus enacted compliance, and Argyris and Schön's espoused theory versus theory-in-use.
Mechanisms¶
- Values Clarification
- Its failure mode is the espoused-versus-enacted gap: it can produce a tidy, admirable list that no future behavior ever reflects.
This sourceThe cited work establishes the espoused-versus-enacted gap.
- Its failure mode is the espoused-versus-enacted gap: it can produce a tidy, admirable list that no future behavior ever reflects.
- Values-in-Action Review
- Its strength is that it makes the enacted value legible — it exposes the daily gap between what an organization says it values and the theory-in-use its decisions actually reveal, then closes the loop by changing the reinforcement and mandating repair.
This sourceDistinguishes theories-in-use revealed in action from theories that actors merely espouse.
- Its strength is that it makes the enacted value legible — it exposes the daily gap between what an organization says it values and the theory-in-use its decisions actually reveal, then closes the loop by changing the reinforcement and mandating repair.
- Values Statement
- Its failure mode is the say-do gap: espoused values that no actual decision honors, the classic divergence between an organization's stated theory and its theory-in-use.
This sourceDistinguishes espoused theory from theory-in-use and explains that the two may be inconsistent.
- Its failure mode is the say-do gap: espoused values that no actual decision honors, the classic divergence between an organization's stated theory and its theory-in-use.
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