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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We are also concerned to interrelate each of these levels . . . . We wish to undertake a factorial analysis to establish the significant variables at each level and their relationships , and then develop at each level a processual ...
We are also concerned to interrelate each of these levels . . . . We wish to undertake a factorial analysis to establish the significant variables at each level and their relationships , and then develop at each level a processual ...
Page 203
Thus to the control which can be built into the division of labour and the technology of production must be added control exercised at two further ' levels of structuration of work organization : . . . the formal authority structure of ...
Thus to the control which can be built into the division of labour and the technology of production must be added control exercised at two further ' levels of structuration of work organization : . . . the formal authority structure of ...
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More important , perhaps , is Lee's ( 1982 ) argument that a focus on the changes taking place within particular occupations and industries is seriously deficient because at a societal level the question of levels of skill and the ...
More important , perhaps , is Lee's ( 1982 ) argument that a focus on the changes taking place within particular occupations and industries is seriously deficient because at a societal level the question of levels of skill and the ...
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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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