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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... suggested that duties and responsibilities were most clearly defined , and written communication most frequent , in large batch and mass production firms in manufacturing industry ; there was less formal specification of structure and ...
... suggested that duties and responsibilities were most clearly defined , and written communication most frequent , in large batch and mass production firms in manufacturing industry ; there was less formal specification of structure and ...
Page 73
... suggested that the social and psychological benefits derived from the reorganisation of work in the textile and coal mining studies might not be easily attainable elsewhere . In the mining and textile situations the new patterns of ...
... suggested that the social and psychological benefits derived from the reorganisation of work in the textile and coal mining studies might not be easily attainable elsewhere . In the mining and textile situations the new patterns of ...
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... suggested , tradition could be relied upon instead . A possible ' late development effect ' was observable in some societies in the adoption of more fully ' bureaucratic ' modes of organisation for relatively smaller organisations . The ...
... suggested , tradition could be relied upon instead . A possible ' late development effect ' was observable in some societies in the adoption of more fully ' bureaucratic ' modes of organisation for relatively smaller organisations . The ...
Contents
Systems thinking | 39 |
Context contingency and choice | 89 |
Orientation and action | 126 |
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