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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Page 140
Categorising orientations to work Goldthorpe and his colleagues saw orientations to work as com- prising a number of different elements which they suggested might typically cluster in certain ways so that it was logically possible and ...
Categorising orientations to work Goldthorpe and his colleagues saw orientations to work as com- prising a number of different elements which they suggested might typically cluster in certain ways so that it was logically possible and ...
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ways to the same work situation , and that people with similar orientations respond in similar ways to different work situations ' ( Daniel 1969 , 368 ) . Goldthorpe was quite right to draw attention to the need for evidence that ...
ways to the same work situation , and that people with similar orientations respond in similar ways to different work situations ' ( Daniel 1969 , 368 ) . Goldthorpe was quite right to draw attention to the need for evidence that ...
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Important elements in this argument were the comparison with the ideal typical solidar- istically oriented worker and the link between the typology of orientations to work and the broader notion of ' images of society ' ( Lockwood 1966 ...
Important elements in this argument were the comparison with the ideal typical solidar- istically oriented worker and the link between the typology of orientations to work and the broader notion of ' images of society ' ( Lockwood 1966 ...
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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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