ABSTRACT
"The Individual and Organization: Some Problems of Mutual Adjustment" is a landmark work in the behavioral school of thought. It explores the relationship between the individual and the organization and provides a new understanding of imbalances between them. The idea of enhancing organizational operations by considering individual maturation needs became pervasive across management theory and practice. Argyris's idea of organizational learning eventually fueled intellectual debate across the scholarly community. The goal of achieving organizational learning through improved communication reached another level of theoretical abstraction through Niklas Luhman. Argyris's ideas have continually been reinforced and extended by the academic community. Argyris advanced behavioral management science and continues to inspire research. Argyris's ideas were taken up by many revisionists in the modern school of thought who combined input from different academic streams. The resulting combination of Argyris's original work and later scholarship has facilitated a completeness of logic and reasoning, as well as wider applicability to a broad range of organizational situations.
