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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... industrial sociology ; indeed the stimulation to be derived from such multi - disciplinary endeavour should be welcomed . In each case , however , some scholars have claimed more than that . Industrial relations - Industrial relations ...
... industrial sociology ; indeed the stimulation to be derived from such multi - disciplinary endeavour should be welcomed . In each case , however , some scholars have claimed more than that . Industrial relations - Industrial relations ...
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... employment had led to increasing numbers of unofficial and unconstitutional strikes . The Commis- sion saw the solution to these problems of disorderly industrial relations as lying in voluntary action by the parties themselves ...
... employment had led to increasing numbers of unofficial and unconstitutional strikes . The Commis- sion saw the solution to these problems of disorderly industrial relations as lying in voluntary action by the parties themselves ...
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... industrial relations which expresses the subject's inherent unity . ( Flanders 1970 , 85 ) The next question was ' system of what ? ' . To answer this Flanders referred to Dunlop's Industrial Relations Systems ( 1958 ) , a book which ...
... industrial relations which expresses the subject's inherent unity . ( Flanders 1970 , 85 ) The next question was ' system of what ? ' . To answer this Flanders referred to Dunlop's Industrial Relations Systems ( 1958 ) , a book which ...
Contents
Systems thinking | 39 |
Context contingency and choice | 89 |
Orientation and action | 126 |
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