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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Page 4
... defined 'industrial sociology' in much the same way as have most of its practitioners: that is pragmatically as a somewhat disparate and unintegrated collection of topics and questions centred on social relations in work organisations ...
... defined 'industrial sociology' in much the same way as have most of its practitioners: that is pragmatically as a somewhat disparate and unintegrated collection of topics and questions centred on social relations in work organisations ...
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... definition is not particularly desirable or defensible. Indeed I shall argue both that greater coherence can be found for the study of many of the questions traditionally included in industrial sociology by taking the employment ...
... definition is not particularly desirable or defensible. Indeed I shall argue both that greater coherence can be found for the study of many of the questions traditionally included in industrial sociology by taking the employment ...
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... defined their field of study. Although there seemed to be considerable agreement as to what industrial sociology was 'about', and this definition has not changed greatly since then, neither these early nor later surveys and summaries ...
... defined their field of study. Although there seemed to be considerable agreement as to what industrial sociology was 'about', and this definition has not changed greatly since then, neither these early nor later surveys and summaries ...
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... defined field, but also the discovery of certain phenomena which are the driving force of industrial society, and the affirmation that this society, as an industrial one, has its own particular dynamic. (Smith 1961, 19) He went on to ...
... defined field, but also the discovery of certain phenomena which are the driving force of industrial society, and the affirmation that this society, as an industrial one, has its own particular dynamic. (Smith 1961, 19) He went on to ...
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... defined and delimited, but in whatever way that is done no sociologist should want to deny other social scientists the right to investigate the same subject matter using their own disciplinary concepts and techniques. The development of ...
... defined and delimited, but in whatever way that is done no sociologist should want to deny other social scientists the right to investigate the same subject matter using their own disciplinary concepts and techniques. The development of ...
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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