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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... discussion is structured around four themes or approaches , each of which contains an important organising idea or concept which has been used in empirical work and theoretical discussions to provide accounts of why organisations are as ...
... discussion is structured around four themes or approaches , each of which contains an important organising idea or concept which has been used in empirical work and theoretical discussions to provide accounts of why organisations are as ...
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... discussion of conflict in the texts themselves . It tends , however , to be concerned either with the the psychic stresses and conflicts experienced by individuals or with the intra - systemic conflicts which may arise from ...
... discussion of conflict in the texts themselves . It tends , however , to be concerned either with the the psychic stresses and conflicts experienced by individuals or with the intra - systemic conflicts which may arise from ...
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... discussion of the labour process to two main factors . In the first place there was the division in Marxist thought between ' economics ' and ' politics ' , and what happened in the workplace was seen as necessarily restricted to ...
... discussion of the labour process to two main factors . In the first place there was the division in Marxist thought between ' economics ' and ' politics ' , and what happened in the workplace was seen as necessarily restricted to ...
Contents
Systems thinking | 39 |
Context contingency and choice | 89 |
Orientation and action | 126 |
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