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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functionalism and the consensual model of society to which it could lead : approaches later labelled ' conflict ... and the social action approach or ' interactionism ' - and , in many ways unfortunately , such a categorisation has ...
functionalism and the consensual model of society to which it could lead : approaches later labelled ' conflict ... and the social action approach or ' interactionism ' - and , in many ways unfortunately , such a categorisation has ...
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In particular their arguments that the approach should be concerned with open socio - technical systems has been more controversial , sometimes because critics misunderstood and exaggerated the importance they attributed to technology ...
In particular their arguments that the approach should be concerned with open socio - technical systems has been more controversial , sometimes because critics misunderstood and exaggerated the importance they attributed to technology ...
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place of the Neo - Human Relations 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 ...
place of the Neo - Human Relations 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 ...
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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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