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 59
This measurement is regarded as providing a basis both for determining ' fair pay ' , and for organising work roles hierarchically into a number of strata , distin- guished by qualitative breaks in the nature of the discretion which is ...
This measurement is regarded as providing a basis both for determining ' fair pay ' , and for organising work roles hierarchically into a number of strata , distin- guished by qualitative breaks in the nature of the discretion which is ...
Page 126
Developments within contingency theories of the notion of stra- tegic choice also imply that the values and expectations of at least some members of an organisation must be regarded as of crucial explanatory importance .
Developments within contingency theories of the notion of stra- tegic choice also imply that the values and expectations of at least some members of an organisation must be regarded as of crucial explanatory importance .
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The ' affluent workers ' must be regarded as relatively unusual in the clarity and strength of their ' instrumental ' orientation to work . Certainly this would be the conclusion to be drawn from Blackburn and Mann's study of the labour ...
The ' affluent workers ' must be regarded as relatively unusual in the clarity and strength of their ' instrumental ' orientation to work . Certainly this would be the conclusion to be drawn from Blackburn and Mann's study of the labour ...
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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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