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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to be seen as the means by which managements in the era of monopoly capitalism control their employees , then the de - skilling and / or degradation of work is less likely to be a universal or even a very general experience .
to be seen as the means by which managements in the era of monopoly capitalism control their employees , then the de - skilling and / or degradation of work is less likely to be a universal or even a very general experience .
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important of all are the technical and , especially , economic exi- gencies which industrial organisations have to meet if they are to remain viable as enterprises which produce goods and / or services within the constraints of the ...
important of all are the technical and , especially , economic exi- gencies which industrial organisations have to meet if they are to remain viable as enterprises which produce goods and / or services within the constraints of the ...
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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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