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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... attempts to understand and account for the social characteristics of industrial organisations , the social relations and ... attempt to assess these bodies of work or their legacy ( see Rose 1988 , esp . Pt 2 , for such an assess- ment ) ...
... attempts to understand and account for the social characteristics of industrial organisations , the social relations and ... attempt to assess these bodies of work or their legacy ( see Rose 1988 , esp . Pt 2 , for such an assess- ment ) ...
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... attempt to con- ceptualise the industrial organisation as a social system . It was a major source on which industrial sociologists in Britain , and elsewhere , could and did draw as research developed after the Second World War . THE ...
... attempt to con- ceptualise the industrial organisation as a social system . It was a major source on which industrial sociologists in Britain , and elsewhere , could and did draw as research developed after the Second World War . THE ...
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... attempt to discover and understand respondents ' views of the world and the language they used to describe it [ Cicourel 1964 ] ) . They included too the danger of ' reifying ' organisations and other institutionalised sets of social ...
... attempt to discover and understand respondents ' views of the world and the language they used to describe it [ Cicourel 1964 ] ) . They included too the danger of ' reifying ' organisations and other institutionalised sets of social ...
Contents
Systems thinking | 39 |
Context contingency and choice | 89 |
Orientation and action | 126 |
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action approach activities Affluent Worker and/or argued arguments Aston programme attempt Braverman's Britain Burawoy bureaucracy Burns and Stalker capitalist capitalist societies changes characteristics colleagues complex concept conceptualisation concerned considerable context contingency theory criticism de-skilling developed discussion distinction economic emphasis employees employment relationship environment example factors firms formal framework functions Goldthorpe Human Relations Human Relations movement imply important industrial enterprises industrial organisations industrial relations industrial sociology influence interest involved isation Jaques labour force labour market labour power labour process levels managerial Marx Marx's means ment monopoly capitalism notion occupational organ organisational structure orientations patterns perspective possible problems Pugh and Hickson question regarded relatively responsible autonomy roles secure seen situation skill social action social relations socio-technical systems sociologists strategy suggested surplus value systems approaches systems thinking Tavistock Tavistock Institute technical theoretical theory tions trade unions Trist types variables Woodward worker resistance writings