Argyris Double-Loop Learning
What is Argyris Double-Loop Learning?
Chris Argyris's theory of organizational learning distinguishing between single-loop learning (correcting errors within existing frameworks) and double-loop learning (questioning and modifying underlying assumptions, values, and policies). Published in 'Organizational Learning' (1978, with Donald Schon) and 'On Organizational Learning' (1999).. It comprises 27 controls organised across 12 domains, and applies in International.
How Argyris Double-Loop Learning maps to other frameworks
All 27 controls, each one mapped to the equivalent requirement in other standards, with the evidence that carries across and the mappings that were judged and rejected shown alongside. No account needed to look.
See the control mappings →The 12 domains Argyris Double-Loop Learning groups its controls into
Frameworks that share controls with Argyris Double-Loop Learning
Each of these has at least one control mapped to a control in Argyris Double-Loop Learning. The number is how many Argyris Double-Loop Learning controls are shared, counted from the mapping graph.
NHS Healthcare Leadership Model
6 shared controlsGoleman Emotional Intelligence Leadership Framework
6 shared controlsICN Leadership for Change Programme
5 shared controlsSenge Fifth Discipline - Learning Organization
5 shared controlsHeifetz Adaptive Leadership Framework
5 shared controlsILO Nursing Personnel Convention C149 (1977)
4 shared controlsCOSO Internal Control - Integrated Framework (2013)
4 shared controlsMaslach Burnout Inventory (MBI) and Areas of Worklife Survey (AWS) Model
4 shared controlsWhere Argyris Double-Loop Learning overlaps with the standards you already hold
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Questions people ask about Argyris Double-Loop Learning
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Query Argyris Double-Loop Learning programmatically
Argyris Double-Loop Learning, its 27 controls and every mapping into other standards are available over a REST endpoint and an MCP server, so an agent can read them directly. The free tier is 10 calls a day and needs no signup.
Argyris Double-Loop Learning API reference and MCP config →What Argyris Double-Loop Learning requires, control by control
Each page carries the requirement text for one Argyris Double-Loop Learning control and what an assessor expects to see as evidence.
- ARGYRIS-BAI Balancing Advocacy with Inquiry - stating views while genuinely inviting challenge and alternative perspectives
- ARGYRIS-DL Double-Loop Learning - questioning and modifying underlying assumptions, values, and policies
- ARGYRIS-DR Organizational Defensive Routines - actions preventing embarrassment or threat that also prevent learning
- ARGYRIS-M1 Model I Behavior - unilateral control, win-lose framing, suppression of negative feelings, defensiveness
- ARGYRIS-PIC Productive Inquiry and Conversation - creating conditions for honest dialogue without defensiveness
- ARGYRIS-SL Single-Loop Learning - correcting errors within existing governing variables without questioning assumptions
- ARGYRIS-TU Theory-in-Use - the theory of action actually governing behavior, often unconscious and different from espoused
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