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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... factor industrial psychology', the investigators of questions about individual behaviour were more than once led to the consideration of social factors and, in a broad sense, of sociological explanations (Rose 1988, Pt 2; also 1975, Pt ...
... factor industrial psychology', the investigators of questions about individual behaviour were more than once led to the consideration of social factors and, in a broad sense, of sociological explanations (Rose 1988, Pt 2; also 1975, Pt ...
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... 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, among other issues ...
... 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, among other issues ...
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... 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 Committee (1965). The findings of ...
... 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 Committee (1965). The findings of ...
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... factors, though their importance was not altogether satisfactorily acknowledged (Warner and Low 1947). Certain assumptions, common to all or most strands in the Human Relations tradition, influenced the content and form of early ...
... factors, though their importance was not altogether satisfactorily acknowledged (Warner and Low 1947). Certain assumptions, common to all or most strands in the Human Relations tradition, influenced the content and form of early ...
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... factors. In particular the small groups to which they belonged and with which they identified were important sources of influence, as were those in positions of authority — supervisors and immediate managers. It was necessary to have ...
... factors. In particular the small groups to which they belonged and with which they identified were important sources of influence, as were those in positions of authority — supervisors and immediate managers. It was necessary to have ...
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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