Argyris Double-Loop Learning L1: Detect and correct errors in routine action (single-loop learning)

What does L1 require?

The organization detects and corrects errors, mismatches between what was intended and what happened, through feedback that leads to changed action strategies within the existing governing values, norms and objectives. Argyris treats this as appropriate for routine, repetitive issues and as what gets the everyday job done, while warning that defining learning narrowly as problem solving in the external environment misses the learning that requires people to look at their own behaviour, and that changing behaviour alone, without changing the master program that produces it, yields corrections that fail or do not persist.