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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... concerned to investigate these developments. In this as in other areas of sociology the aim has been to go behind the headlines and common-sense understandings to identify underlying trends and patterns of cause and effect, both ...
... concerned to investigate these developments. In this as in other areas of sociology the aim has been to go behind the headlines and common-sense understandings to identify underlying trends and patterns of cause and effect, both ...
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... concerned primarily with research and writing in Britain in the period since the Second World War; and I have organised my discussion around certain influential theoretical perspectives concerned with understanding industrial ...
... concerned primarily with research and writing in Britain in the period since the Second World War; and I have organised my discussion around certain influential theoretical perspectives concerned with understanding industrial ...
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... concern of industrial sociology, but it does not comprise the whole of the subject as conventionally understood. We ... concerns of industrial sociology, as embodied in text books and reviews of the field. During the whole of the period ...
... concern of industrial sociology, but it does not comprise the whole of the subject as conventionally understood. We ... concerns of industrial sociology, as embodied in text books and reviews of the field. During the whole of the period ...
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... in Britain on at least a semi-secure footing. The post-war concern with the low levels of productivity in British industry, especially in comparison with the USA, led to the setting up of. 6 Understanding industrial organisations.
... in Britain on at least a semi-secure footing. The post-war concern with the low levels of productivity in British industry, especially in comparison with the USA, led to the setting up of. 6 Understanding industrial organisations.
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... concerned with 'human factors'. This panel made grants for research on the foreman (NH? 1951), on joint consultation (NIIP 1952; Scott 1952;]aques 1951), and for the support of research in mining and on the problems of the older worker ...
... concerned with 'human factors'. This panel made grants for research on the foreman (NH? 1951), on joint consultation (NIIP 1952; Scott 1952;]aques 1951), and for the support of research in mining and on the problems of the older worker ...
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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Understanding Industrial Organisations: Theoretical Perspectives in ... Richard K. Brown Limited preview - 1992 |
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