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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... is a long - standing , and too often justified , one ; it has been 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 ...
... is a long - standing , and too often justified , one ; it has been 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 ...
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That there is this room , conceptually , for conflict is not surprising given the stress on the way occupational differentiation gives rise to differences in attitudes , values and interests , and to the likelihood of collective ...
That there is this room , conceptually , for conflict is not surprising given the stress on the way occupational differentiation gives rise to differences in attitudes , values and interests , and to the likelihood of collective ...
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Thus the negotiating of ' order ' in organisations takes place within conditions of action which are largely ' given ' so far as most if not all members of the organisations are concerned . Recog- nition that this is so should go some ...
Thus the negotiating of ' order ' in organisations takes place within conditions of action which are largely ' given ' so far as most if not all members of the organisations are concerned . Recog- nition that this is so should go some ...
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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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