Understanding Industrial Organisations: Theoretical Perspectives in Industrial SociologyRoutledge, 1992 - 280 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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... approach advocated by Goldthorpe and his colleagues was explicitly contrasted with the assumptions of neo - Human Relations and the implicit functionalism of the ' tech- nological implications ' approach ( Goldthorpe et al . 1968 , 178 ...
... approach advocated by Goldthorpe and his colleagues was explicitly contrasted with the assumptions of neo - Human Relations and the implicit functionalism of the ' tech- nological implications ' approach ( Goldthorpe et al . 1968 , 178 ...
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... approach to the analysis of industrial organ- isations has been the dominant approach within sociology for the past two decades , and some further developments of such an approach will be discussed in the next chapter . The Tavistock ...
... approach to the analysis of industrial organ- isations has been the dominant approach within sociology for the past two decades , and some further developments of such an approach will be discussed in the next chapter . The Tavistock ...
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... approach . It is to the develop- ment and criticism of this ' social action ' approach that we must now turn . DEVELOPMENTS AND CRITICISMS Even before the full accounts of the Affluent Worker project had been published a number of ...
... approach . It is to the develop- ment and criticism of this ' social action ' approach that we must now turn . DEVELOPMENTS AND CRITICISMS Even before the full accounts of the Affluent Worker project had been published a number of ...
Contents
Systems thinking | 39 |
Context contingency and choice | 89 |
Orientation and action | 126 |
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