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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... given greater force by the economic and social changes of the last two decades . THE SCOPE OF INDUSTRIAL SOCIOLOGY At the start of the 1960s three surveys were published of the condition of industrial sociology at that time . Two of ...
... given greater force by the economic and social changes of the last two decades . THE SCOPE OF INDUSTRIAL SOCIOLOGY At the start of the 1960s three surveys were published of the condition of industrial sociology at that time . Two of ...
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... given the stress on the way occupational differentiation gives rise to differences in attitudes , values and interests , and to the likelihood of collective organisation to pursue such interests . Inevitably , however , it weakens the ...
... given the stress on the way occupational differentiation gives rise to differences in attitudes , values and interests , and to the likelihood of collective organisation to pursue such interests . Inevitably , however , it weakens the ...
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... given and inherited circumstances with which they are directly confronted . Comparative studies of organisations have demonstrated the im- portance of the differences in culture within and between societies for any account of ...
... given and inherited circumstances with which they are directly confronted . Comparative studies of organisations have demonstrated the im- portance of the differences in culture within and between societies for any account of ...
Contents
Systems thinking | 39 |
Context contingency and choice | 89 |
Orientation and action | 126 |
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