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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Page 116
... question must arise , therefore , of how far a particular factory , office or shop , which is a branch of such a larger organisation , can be studied as if it were on a par with an independent business , and of how to treat ...
... question must arise , therefore , of how far a particular factory , office or shop , which is a branch of such a larger organisation , can be studied as if it were on a par with an independent business , and of how to treat ...
Page 133
... question of satisfaction from work cannot in the end be usefully considered except in relation to the more basic question of what we would term orientation towards work . Until one knows something of the way in which workers order their ...
... question of satisfaction from work cannot in the end be usefully considered except in relation to the more basic question of what we would term orientation towards work . Until one knows something of the way in which workers order their ...
Page 188
... questions of control and consent , however , there is a rather different question which must be faced . Braverman's emphasis , like that of Marx , is on the specifically capitalist labour process . The tendencies he observed and ...
... questions of control and consent , however , there is a rather different question which must be faced . Braverman's emphasis , like that of Marx , is on the specifically capitalist labour process . The tendencies he observed and ...
Contents
Systems thinking | 39 |
Context contingency and choice | 89 |
Orientation and action | 126 |
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