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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... economic growth , full or near - full employment , and rising standards of living . Finally came the period from the mid - 1970s when economic growth and full employment could clearly no longer be taken for granted and Britain's ...
... economic growth , full or near - full employment , and rising standards of living . Finally came the period from the mid - 1970s when economic growth and full employment could clearly no longer be taken for granted and Britain's ...
Page 141
... 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 classification ...
... 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 classification ...
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... economic cycles 221 economic environment see social institutions and processes economic man 11 , 140 economic rewards of work 140-2 , 146 , 151 Economic and Social Research Council see Social Science Research Council education : as ...
... economic cycles 221 economic environment see social institutions and processes economic man 11 , 140 economic rewards of work 140-2 , 146 , 151 Economic and Social Research Council see Social Science Research Council education : as ...
Contents
Systems thinking | 39 |
Context contingency and choice | 89 |
Orientation and action | 126 |
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