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 85
primary task , and with activities and relationships appropriately structured to accomplish the task , makes it difficult to ... together with the provision of appropriate re- presentative systems and appeals procedures , and the ...
primary task , and with activities and relationships appropriately structured to accomplish the task , makes it difficult to ... together with the provision of appropriate re- presentative systems and appeals procedures , and the ...
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... be subject to expectations , supported by positive and negative sanctions , as to how one should behave , and to be subject to processes of socialisation which may well lead to the internalisa- tion of appropriate values and norms .
... be subject to expectations , supported by positive and negative sanctions , as to how one should behave , and to be subject to processes of socialisation which may well lead to the internalisa- tion of appropriate values and norms .
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The appropriate management system was ' organic ' , described by the authors in the following terms : Organic systems are adapted to unstable conditions , when prob- lems and requirements for action arise which cannot be broken down and ...
The appropriate management system was ' organic ' , described by the authors in the following terms : Organic systems are adapted to unstable conditions , when prob- lems and requirements for action arise which cannot be broken down and ...
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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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