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Synopsis
Presents an innovative approach for analyzing and understanding organizations, examining how actions among individuals and groups affect organizations as a whole. Challenges the view that improvement in individual or group performance is necessarily linked to enhanced organizational functioning. Explores the concept of organizational linkages and applies it to the areas of organizational change, organizational errors, and organizational learning. Includes chapter- ending "conversations" between the author and reader. The author teaches industrial administration and psychology at the Graduate School of Industrial Administration at Carnegie Mellon University. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR