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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Page 53
... distinction is hard to apply in practice in organ- isations where very few relationships and procedures may be clearly articulated and officially proposed , and unless one asserts that what those who have power in organisations decide ...
... distinction is hard to apply in practice in organ- isations where very few relationships and procedures may be clearly articulated and officially proposed , and unless one asserts that what those who have power in organisations decide ...
Page 54
... distinction has its place , and its problems , within functionalist analysis , but Roethlisberger and Dickson , Scott and his colleagues , and writers like Blau in their analyses of bureaucracy , all reject it explicitly . They are ...
... distinction has its place , and its problems , within functionalist analysis , but Roethlisberger and Dickson , Scott and his colleagues , and writers like Blau in their analyses of bureaucracy , all reject it explicitly . They are ...
Page 141
... distinction between economic and non - economic rewards he argued that orientations could be classified ' in terms of the importance attached by the worker to economic and non - economic rewards of various kinds ' leading to a fourfold ...
... distinction between economic and non - economic rewards he argued that orientations could be classified ' in terms of the importance attached by the worker to economic and non - economic rewards of various kinds ' leading to a fourfold ...
Contents
Systems thinking | 39 |
Context contingency and choice | 89 |
Orientation and action | 126 |
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