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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... problems in industry (Seear 1962). I have made no attempt to assess these bodies of work or their legacy (see Rose 1988, esp. Pt 2, for such an assessment) . My attention is concentrated on the period after 1945 when explicitly ...
... problems in industry (Seear 1962). I have made no attempt to assess these bodies of work or their legacy (see Rose 1988, esp. Pt 2, for such an assessment) . My attention is concentrated on the period after 1945 when explicitly ...
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... problems with other branches of the social sciences or other sub-disciplines within sociology. The final section of the chapter will identify and outline briefly the theoretical perspectives and debates to be considered in the body of ...
... problems with other branches of the social sciences or other sub-disciplines within sociology. The final section of the chapter will identify and outline briefly the theoretical perspectives and debates to be considered in the body of ...
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... problems in industry was provided by the First World War. The need for an increased output of munitions led to the setting up of. THE GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT OF INDUSTRIAL SOCIOLOGY IN BRITAIN SINCE 1945 THE SCOPE OF INDUSTRIAL SOCIOLOGY.
... problems in industry was provided by the First World War. The need for an increased output of munitions led to the setting up of. THE GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT OF INDUSTRIAL SOCIOLOGY IN BRITAIN SINCE 1945 THE SCOPE OF INDUSTRIAL SOCIOLOGY.
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... problems such as fatigue and monotony, which continued until the late 19405. The Health of Munitions Workers Committee was succeeded by the Industrial Fatigue Research Board in 1917 (from 1921 financed through the Medical Research ...
... problems such as fatigue and monotony, which continued until the late 19405. The Health of Munitions Workers Committee was succeeded by the Industrial Fatigue Research Board in 1917 (from 1921 financed through the Medical Research ...
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... problems were social as well as technical meant that one of the Committee's four panels was concerned with 'human factors'. This panel made grants for research on the foreman (NH? 1951), on joint consultation (NIIP 1952; Scott 1952 ...
... problems were social as well as technical meant that one of the Committee's four panels was concerned with 'human factors'. This panel made grants for research on the foreman (NH? 1951), on joint consultation (NIIP 1952; Scott 1952 ...
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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