Understanding Industrial Organisations: Theoretical Perspectives in Industrial SociologyUnderstanding 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 209
Through policies to provide welfare benefits and to give employees greater job security and prospects , managements can attempt to ' obscure the commodity status of labour ' ; but in this area too such policies may well have ...
Through policies to provide welfare benefits and to give employees greater job security and prospects , managements can attempt to ' obscure the commodity status of labour ' ; but in this area too such policies may well have ...
Page 211
Consent The ambivalent nature of the employer - employee relationship has been widely recognised in sociology for a ... On the other hand , employees ' livelihoods , as well as employers ' profits , depend on the continuing success of ...
Consent The ambivalent nature of the employer - employee relationship has been widely recognised in sociology for a ... On the other hand , employees ' livelihoods , as well as employers ' profits , depend on the continuing success of ...
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In this way the employer's exercise of authority , and the employee's defence of a degree of autonomy on the job ... pay and other rewards , and the contri- bution which the employee is expected to make to the employing enterprise .
In this way the employer's exercise of authority , and the employee's defence of a degree of autonomy on the job ... pay and other rewards , and the contri- bution which the employee is expected to make to the employing enterprise .
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Contents
Systems thinking | 35 |
Context contingency and choice | 97 |
Orientation and action | 126 |
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| Title | Understanding Industrial Organisations: Theoretical Perspectives in Industrial Sociology |
| Author | Richard K. Brown |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Routledge, 1992 |
| ISBN | 0415017815, 9780415017817 |
| Length | 280 pages |
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