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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... writings of social theorists such as Foucault , have provided further challenges to established ways of ... writing on organisations from within these new perspectives to compare with those which are the subject of this book ; and it is ...
... writings of social theorists such as Foucault , have provided further challenges to established ways of ... writing on organisations from within these new perspectives to compare with those which are the subject of this book ; and it is ...
Page 41
... writings of social anthropologists such as Malinowski and Radcliffe - Brown . The dominant figure in func- tionalist sociology in the 1950s was the American social theorist , Talcott Parsons ( see , for example , Hamilton 1983 , esp ...
... writings of social anthropologists such as Malinowski and Radcliffe - Brown . The dominant figure in func- tionalist sociology in the 1950s was the American social theorist , Talcott Parsons ( see , for example , Hamilton 1983 , esp ...
Page 127
... writings of Elton Mayo . Although Mayo's work ( esp . 1933 ; 1949 ) was extremely influential it represented only one strand in the Human Relations movement , and some of the other research and writing was not only more modest in its ...
... writings of Elton Mayo . Although Mayo's work ( esp . 1933 ; 1949 ) was extremely influential it represented only one strand in the Human Relations movement , and some of the other research and writing was not only more modest in its ...
Contents
Systems thinking | 39 |
Context contingency and choice | 89 |
Orientation and action | 126 |
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