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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... changes in all these areas during the forty-five year period under review, and this provides an important context for the material discussed in the rest of the book. I shall indicate the major substantive concerns of industrial ...
... changes in all these areas during the forty-five year period under review, and this provides an important context for the material discussed in the rest of the book. I shall indicate the major substantive concerns of industrial ...
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... change, incentives, training and promotion, and the problems of special groups in industry' (Seear 1962, 178; Stansfield 1981). Among those whose early work was supported by this Committee, and its successor from 1957, the DSIR Human ...
... change, incentives, training and promotion, and the problems of special groups in industry' (Seear 1962, 178; Stansfield 1981). Among those whose early work was supported by this Committee, and its successor from 1957, the DSIR Human ...
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... change can be attributed to two main factors: the expansion of higher education in the wake of the Robbins Report (1963) and the establishment of the Social Science Research Council (SSRC) following the recommendations of the I-Ieyworth ...
... change can be attributed to two main factors: the expansion of higher education in the wake of the Robbins Report (1963) and the establishment of the Social Science Research Council (SSRC) following the recommendations of the I-Ieyworth ...
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... change research intentions in two ways: it may be a further reason for emphasising the practical contributions research can make, and it may lead to the avoidance of topics and issues which are controversial and divisive. Not all ...
... change research intentions in two ways: it may be a further reason for emphasising the practical contributions research can make, and it may lead to the avoidance of topics and issues which are controversial and divisive. Not all ...
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... changes must be the 'Human Relations Movement', though this tradition of research and theorising about social ... change and conflict in the New England shoe industry produced as part of a major community study of 'Yankee City', which ...
... changes must be the 'Human Relations Movement', though this tradition of research and theorising about social ... change and conflict in the New England shoe industry produced as part of a major community study of 'Yankee City', which ...
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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