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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... important context for work , will acknowledge the significance of the interrelations between employment and work in all sorts of other settings . Not all research activity has reflected these changes in industry and employment nor been ...
... important context for work , will acknowledge the significance of the interrelations between employment and work in all sorts of other settings . Not all research activity has reflected these changes in industry and employment nor been ...
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... important exceptions , and there have been changes for the better in all these respects in recent years ... important , context within which work is carried out ; and would enable illuminating comparisons to be made , and important ...
... important exceptions , and there have been changes for the better in all these respects in recent years ... important , context within which work is carried out ; and would enable illuminating comparisons to be made , and important ...
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... important organising idea or concept which has been used in empirical work and theoretical discussions to provide accounts of why organisations are as they are and why social relations and social processes within them occur as they do ...
... important organising idea or concept which has been used in empirical work and theoretical discussions to provide accounts of why organisations are as they are and why social relations and social processes within them occur as they do ...
Contents
Systems thinking | 39 |
Context contingency and choice | 89 |
Orientation and action | 126 |
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