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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... industrial organisations, has always been a central concern of industrial sociology, but it does not comprise the whole of the subject as conventionally understood. We shall give relatively little attention to work on industrial conflict ...
... industrial organisations, has always been a central concern of industrial sociology, but it does not comprise the whole of the subject as conventionally understood. We shall give relatively little attention to work on industrial conflict ...
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... conflict which he saw as deriving from the breakdown of the 'established' society of the pre-industrial period; he saw the solution to these problems of 'anomie' lying in the development of social skills and in providing at the ...
... conflict which he saw as deriving from the breakdown of the 'established' society of the pre-industrial period; he saw the solution to these problems of 'anomie' lying in the development of social skills and in providing at the ...
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... industrial conflict as inevitably pathological and trade unions as misguided; Britain had different political traditions and trade unions were more securely established within the system of industrial relations. Though interpretations ...
... industrial conflict as inevitably pathological and trade unions as misguided; Britain had different political traditions and trade unions were more securely established within the system of industrial relations. Though interpretations ...
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... conflict theory'. DahrendorFs fuller elaboration of his ideas in Class and Class Conflict in an Industrial Society (1959) was presented as a revision and updating of Marx's analysis of capitalist society, but it can be seen as more ...
... conflict theory'. DahrendorFs fuller elaboration of his ideas in Class and Class Conflict in an Industrial Society (1959) was presented as a revision and updating of Marx's analysis of capitalist society, but it can be seen as more ...
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... industrial conflict. Research was also directed to questions of industrial democracy and new forms of work organisation, which were seen as potential means to improve worker commitment and management—worker relations. In the most recent ...
... industrial conflict. Research was also directed to questions of industrial democracy and new forms of work organisation, which were seen as potential means to improve worker commitment and management—worker relations. In the most recent ...
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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