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 189
... employment in societies like Britain . This appears to be advocated by certain scholars ( see Brighton Labour Process Group 1977 ) . Braverman's own discussion , however , stressed the major similarities between what are analytically ...
... employment in societies like Britain . This appears to be advocated by certain scholars ( see Brighton Labour Process Group 1977 ) . Braverman's own discussion , however , stressed the major similarities between what are analytically ...
Page 203
... employment relations to go together this is only a tendency and not a necessity ' ( 43 ) . For example , the means of control advocated by Taylor emphasised the first two levels identi- fied by Littler , the division of labour and job ...
... employment relations to go together this is only a tendency and not a necessity ' ( 43 ) . For example , the means of control advocated by Taylor emphasised the first two levels identi- fied by Littler , the division of labour and job ...
Page 239
... employment relationship would obviate these difficulties and provide theoretically defensible grounds for con- sidering engineering , banking , the health ' industry ' and so on within a common framework . What all these areas of ...
... employment relationship would obviate these difficulties and provide theoretically defensible grounds for con- sidering engineering , banking , the health ' industry ' and so on within a common framework . What all these areas of ...
Contents
Systems thinking | 39 |
Context contingency and choice | 89 |
Orientation and action | 126 |
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