Work Organisations: A critical introduction

✍ Scribed by Paul Thompson, David McHugh (auth.)

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Year: 1990
Tongue: English
Leaves: 423
Edition: 1
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

Acting as a critical introduction to organization studies, this book discusses a variety of issues central to that theme. These range from the classical theories and bureaucratisation of production, to analyzing management as a labour process.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-x
Introduction....Pages 1-10
Front Matter....Pages 11-11
Organisation Theory....Pages 13-46
The Emergence of Large-Scale Organisations....Pages 47-85
Organisations and the Environment....Pages 86-128
Management, Power and Control....Pages 129-170
Organisational Design....Pages 171-220
Reinventing Organisation Man....Pages 221-242
Front Matter....Pages 243-243
Issues in Organisational Behaviour....Pages 245-282
Society, Psychology and the Individual....Pages 283-313
Identity Work....Pages 314-353
Front Matter....Pages 355-355
Conclusions: Changing Organisations....Pages 357-367
Back Matter....Pages 368-416

✦ Subjects

Industries; Organization

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