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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Industrial relations - Industrial relations has been the longer and more securely estab lished of these two areas of research and teaching . University chairs in the subject were established in the inter - war period , and since 1945 ...
Industrial relations - Industrial relations has been the longer and more securely estab lished of these two areas of research and teaching . University chairs in the subject were established in the inter - war period , and since 1945 ...
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structural determinants ' of behaviour , which he saw as the parti- cular concern of sociology , must be identified and changed if desired changes in industrial relations practice were to be success- fully achieved ( Fox 1966 , 33 ) .
structural determinants ' of behaviour , which he saw as the parti- cular concern of sociology , must be identified and changed if desired changes in industrial relations practice were to be success- fully achieved ( Fox 1966 , 33 ) .
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The drawback of relying on the theory of any one of the several disciplines that have impinged on industrial relations is that it was never intended to offer an integrated view of the whole complex of institutions in this field .
The drawback of relying on the theory of any one of the several disciplines that have impinged on industrial relations is that it was never intended to offer an integrated view of the whole complex of institutions in this field .
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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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