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 57
... roles , to which were attached responsibility and authority , and status related to where these roles came in the horizontal strata into which the firm could be divided . Much of the detailed analysis reported in the book was concerned ...
... roles , to which were attached responsibility and authority , and status related to where these roles came in the horizontal strata into which the firm could be divided . Much of the detailed analysis reported in the book was concerned ...
Page 60
... roles and role relationships . Commentary There are many aspects of this work which could be discussed in detail , but in the present context we are most concerned with the contribution Jaques and Brown make to the conceptualisation of ...
... roles and role relationships . Commentary There are many aspects of this work which could be discussed in detail , but in the present context we are most concerned with the contribution Jaques and Brown make to the conceptualisation of ...
Page 138
... roles which largely constrained workers ' social relations and behaviour , and would be associated with certain attitudes understandable as reactions to such work roles and rela- tionships . As we saw in previous chapters it has been ...
... roles which largely constrained workers ' social relations and behaviour , and would be associated with certain attitudes understandable as reactions to such work roles and rela- tionships . As we saw in previous chapters it has been ...
Contents
Systems thinking | 39 |
Context contingency and choice | 89 |
Orientation and action | 126 |
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