Understanding Industrial Organizations: Theoretical Perspectives in Industrial SociologyRoutledge, 2013 M10 31 - 288 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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... nature of industrialism and industrial society , and in addition to this tendency to merge with a sociology of industrial societies - there have been questions of overlap with other 4 Understanding industrial organisations.
... nature of industrialism and industrial society , and in addition to this tendency to merge with a sociology of industrial societies - there have been questions of overlap with other 4 Understanding industrial organisations.
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... nature of the conflicting interests of employers and employees continued to differ , the legitimacy of both sets of interests was fairly widely recognised . Nor was the Human Relations movement the only source of underlying assumptions ...
... nature of the conflicting interests of employers and employees continued to differ , the legitimacy of both sets of interests was fairly widely recognised . Nor was the Human Relations movement the only source of underlying assumptions ...
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... nature have been significantly affected by the actions and inactions of the Thatcher Governments of the 1980s . It is only possible to list some of the more important developments : the continuing high levels of unemployment ; the ...
... nature have been significantly affected by the actions and inactions of the Thatcher Governments of the 1980s . It is only possible to list some of the more important developments : the continuing high levels of unemployment ; the ...
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... nature of our societies , the structures related to that nature and the sequence of their transformations , and , in short , to put together a structural and historical model which will account for them . ( Smith 1961 , 21 ) In what is ...
... nature of our societies , the structures related to that nature and the sequence of their transformations , and , in short , to put together a structural and historical model which will account for them . ( Smith 1961 , 21 ) In what is ...
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... nature and dynamics of industrial societies , could it remain distinct from a ( general ) sociology of industrial societies ? If a more limited view were to be taken , that it should be concerned with the internal relations of ...
... nature and dynamics of industrial societies , could it remain distinct from a ( general ) sociology of industrial societies ? If a more limited view were to be taken , that it should be concerned with the internal relations of ...
Contents
Systems thinking | 39 |
Context contingency and choice | 97 |
Orientation and action | 135 |
Labour power and the labour process | 165 |
Conclusion | 228 |
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Understanding Industrial Organisations: Theoretical Perspectives in ... Richard K. Brown Limited preview - 1992 |
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