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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The sociologist , with his conceptual limitation against accepting that an individual can more than marginally affect an organization , tends to regard the hypothesis as naive ; while the psychologist's conceptual limitations make him ...
The sociologist , with his conceptual limitation against accepting that an individual can more than marginally affect an organization , tends to regard the hypothesis as naive ; while the psychologist's conceptual limitations make him ...
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( see , for example , Emery and Thorsrud 1976 ) , focusing more on individual job design in a group context and attaching less signifi- cance to the group as such ( Kelly 1978 , 1095-6 ) . This second strand can be associated ...
( see , for example , Emery and Thorsrud 1976 ) , focusing more on individual job design in a group context and attaching less signifi- cance to the group as such ( Kelly 1978 , 1095-6 ) . This second strand can be associated ...
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It tends , however , to be concerned either with the the psychic stresses and conflicts experienced by individuals or with the intra - systemic conflicts which may arise from inappropriate patterns of work and management organ- isation ...
It tends , however , to be concerned either with the the psychic stresses and conflicts experienced by individuals or with the intra - systemic conflicts which may arise from inappropriate patterns of work and management organ- isation ...
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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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