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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similar additional assumptions Rice was able to analyse the existing management structure of the Indian enterprises with which he was concerned and to propose alternative patterns of management based on the desirability of ' any ...
similar additional assumptions Rice was able to analyse the existing management structure of the Indian enterprises with which he was concerned and to propose alternative patterns of management based on the desirability of ' any ...
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In the mining and textile situations the new patterns of organisation were appropriate both for task performance and for meeting human needs for satisfaction and for ' defence against anxiety ' . Miller and Rice distinguished the ...
In the mining and textile situations the new patterns of organisation were appropriate both for task performance and for meeting human needs for satisfaction and for ' defence against anxiety ' . Miller and Rice distinguished the ...
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Wirdenius 1973 ) , however , was deliberately designed to test Woodward's findings about the relationship between production systems and patterns of management by focusing on supervisory jobs . They concluded that there was ' no simple ...
Wirdenius 1973 ) , however , was deliberately designed to test Woodward's findings about the relationship between production systems and patterns of management by focusing on supervisory jobs . They concluded that there was ' no simple ...
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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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