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 131
Even before the findings of the Affluent Worker project were used to support a major critique of both these approaches a ... For example , the differing reactions of workers to incentive payment systems , both in Britain and the USA ...
Even before the findings of the Affluent Worker project were used to support a major critique of both these approaches a ... For example , the differing reactions of workers to incentive payment systems , both in Britain and the USA ...
Page 133
Within the three plants it was possible to sample populations of manual workers who were ( relatively ) affluent , economically secure and consumption minded , and many of whom had moved to Luton in search of better housing and well- ...
Within the three plants it was possible to sample populations of manual workers who were ( relatively ) affluent , economically secure and consumption minded , and many of whom had moved to Luton in search of better housing and well- ...
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Indeed there may well be advantages in using both strategies , each in relation to different groups of workers ... those whose skills and abilities are , or have been made by worker organisation to seem , essential to the firm's long ...
Indeed there may well be advantages in using both strategies , each in relation to different groups of workers ... those whose skills and abilities are , or have been made by worker organisation to seem , essential to the firm's long ...
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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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