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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... common purpose , which did not exist in the outside world . This vision was not necessarily or completely shared by those responsible for the research which followed the Hawthorne Experiments , though their varied investigations could ...
... common purpose , which did not exist in the outside world . This vision was not necessarily or completely shared by those responsible for the research which followed the Hawthorne Experiments , though their varied investigations could ...
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... common characteristics of such forms of social life . Weber's ideal type ' bureaucracy ' dates from this period ; the rather different ' theories ' of Weber's contemporaries had a strong normative ele- ment and attempted to provide ...
... common characteristics of such forms of social life . Weber's ideal type ' bureaucracy ' dates from this period ; the rather different ' theories ' of Weber's contemporaries had a strong normative ele- ment and attempted to provide ...
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... common framework . What all these areas of activity have in common is that they are providing goods and / or services and that people are employed to carry out the necessary work . Socio- logical analysis which focused on employment ...
... common framework . What all these areas of activity have in common is that they are providing goods and / or services and that people are employed to carry out the necessary work . Socio- logical analysis which focused on employment ...
Contents
Systems thinking | 39 |
Context contingency and choice | 89 |
Orientation and action | 126 |
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