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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Nor was the Human Relations movement the only source of underlying assumptions and more general ideas in industrial sociology . To give only two important examples : Marx's arguments about class and class consciousness were clearly of ...
Nor was the Human Relations movement the only source of underlying assumptions and more general ideas in industrial sociology . To give only two important examples : Marx's arguments about class and class consciousness were clearly of ...
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It contained two main components associated respectively with the work of two American psychologists , Maslow and Herzberg , though their basic ideas were adopted by a number of other influential management and organisational theorists ...
It contained two main components associated respectively with the work of two American psychologists , Maslow and Herzberg , though their basic ideas were adopted by a number of other influential management and organisational theorists ...
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He restated in a straightforward and accessible way Marx's ideas about the nature of the labour process under capital- ism , ideas which as we have seen had been largely neglected until this point ; he extended that analysis to his own ...
He restated in a straightforward and accessible way Marx's ideas about the nature of the labour process under capital- ism , ideas which as we have seen had been largely neglected until this point ; he extended that analysis to his own ...
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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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