Understanding Industrial Organisations: Theoretical Perspectives in Industrial SociologyUnderstanding 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 108
The initial cross- classification of structuring of activities with concentration of authority revealed four clusters of organisations in terms of their scores on these two dimensions ( Pugh and Hickson 1976 , Ch . 6 ) : 1 implicitly ...
The initial cross- classification of structuring of activities with concentration of authority revealed four clusters of organisations in terms of their scores on these two dimensions ( Pugh and Hickson 1976 , Ch . 6 ) : 1 implicitly ...
Page 202
The former is essential in any production system where more than one or two people are involved ; the activities of the various participants have to be meshed together if inefficiency or even chaos are to be avoided .
The former is essential in any production system where more than one or two people are involved ; the activities of the various participants have to be meshed together if inefficiency or even chaos are to be avoided .
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Work can refer to any of an enormous range of activities many of which may , in certain contexts , be regarded as recreation , play or leisure . Work refers to any physical and mental activities which transform materials into a more ...
Work can refer to any of an enormous range of activities many of which may , in certain contexts , be regarded as recreation , play or leisure . Work refers to any physical and mental activities which transform materials into a more ...
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Contents
Systems thinking | 35 |
Context contingency and choice | 97 |
Orientation and action | 126 |
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| Title | Understanding Industrial Organisations: Theoretical Perspectives in Industrial Sociology |
| Author | Richard K. Brown |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Routledge, 1992 |
| ISBN | 0415017815, 9780415017817 |
| Length | 280 pages |
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