Understanding Industrial Organizations: Theoretical Perspectives in Industrial SociologyRoutledge, 2013 M10 31 - 288 pages Understanding Industrial Organizations critically reviews the approaches developed by industrial sociologists to analyze industrial organizations. It outlines four general perspectives on organizations - systems thinking, contingency approach, the action approach and labour process for a more adequate sociology of organizations. The book provides a clear, relevant and important contribution to the sociology of organizations. |
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... analysis of wage labour, Durkheim's discussion of the division of labour, and Weber's ideal type of bureaucracy are the most obvious examples. However, as we shall see, it is very much more recently that such an interest in industry and ...
... analysis of wage labour, Durkheim's discussion of the division of labour, and Weber's ideal type of bureaucracy are the most obvious examples. However, as we shall see, it is very much more recently that such an interest in industry and ...
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... analysis of problems based on first-hand observation; some of those involved in or aware of this work went on to secure and administer government support for social research on industrial problems in the post-war period (see Stansfield ...
... analysis of problems based on first-hand observation; some of those involved in or aware of this work went on to secure and administer government support for social research on industrial problems in the post-war period (see Stansfield ...
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... analysis of information in the periodic registers of members of the British Sociological Association (BSA). This shows that during the considerable expansion of teaching and research in sociology during the past three decades the ...
... analysis of information in the periodic registers of members of the British Sociological Association (BSA). This shows that during the considerable expansion of teaching and research in sociology during the past three decades the ...
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... analysis which characterised sociology in general in the 19405 and 19505. Indeed among the rather sparse references to other social theorists in the work of Mayo and Roethlisberger and Dickson it is noticeable that Durkheim, Pareto and ...
... analysis which characterised sociology in general in the 19405 and 19505. Indeed among the rather sparse references to other social theorists in the work of Mayo and Roethlisberger and Dickson it is noticeable that Durkheim, Pareto and ...
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... analysis of industrial conflict both a pluralist approach derived from or at least compatible with the social action perspective and a more 'radical' perspective drawing on Marxian analysis of class conflict were counterposed to the ...
... analysis of industrial conflict both a pluralist approach derived from or at least compatible with the social action perspective and a more 'radical' perspective drawing on Marxian analysis of class conflict were counterposed to the ...
Contents
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2 Systems thinking | 39 |
3 Context contingency and choice | 89 |
4 Orientation and action | 126 |
5 Labour power and the labour process | 165 |
6 Conclusion | 228 |
Bibliography | 242 |
Name index | 261 |
Subject index | 266 |
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