Major Works: Sociology & Social Policy

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31. Organization, Class and Control (RLE: Organizations)

    By Stewart Clegg, David Dunkerley

    Series: Routledge Library Editions: Organizations

    In this volume the authors develop a systematic and chronologically based critique of the major concepts, figures and schools in organization. Themes discussed include: the development of scientific management and the responses of Gramsci and Lenin to it the meaning of Mayo and the Human...

    Published March 19th 2013 by Routledge
32. The Foreman (RLE: Organizations)

    Aspects of Task and Structure

    By David Dunkerley

    Series: Routledge Library Editions: Organizations

    The foreman is usually regarded as a filter in a chain of command in industrial organizations. In this book, however, the author suggests that this view is not adequate, and he proposes instead a model of analysis which employs a systems perspective. The role of the foreman is seen in terms of the...

    Published March 19th 2013 by Routledge
33. The Study of Organizations (RLE: Organizations)

    By David Dunkerley

    Series: Routledge Library Editions: Organizations

    In this introduction for undergraduate students, the author surveys the development of the study of organizations from an historical point of view. He studies organizations within the framework of the main schools of thought, looks into the various levels of analysis involved, and considers the...

    Published March 19th 2013 by Routledge
34. The International Yearbook of Organization Studies 1981 (RLE: Organizations)

    Edited by David Dunkerley, Graeme Salaman

    Series: Routledge Library Editions: Organizations

    The diverse topics in this volume bring together developments in the field of organization studies. Although the approaches are by no means undifferentiated the articles share a commitment to a revitalized organizational analysis, an historically based analysis and one which attempts to understand...

    Published March 19th 2013 by Routledge
35. Managing Organizational Change (RLE: Organizations)

    Human Factors and Automation

    By Fred Fallik

    Series: Routledge Library Editions: Organizations

    The United States Internal Revenue Service introduced a multi-million dollar program to automate its operations in the early 1980s. This book describes a multidisciplinary study of the experiences of several thousand users in this program, based primarily on questionnaires, observation and...

    Published March 19th 2013 by Routledge
36. Freedom and Co-ordination (RLE: Organizations)

    Lectures in Business Organization

    By Mary Parker Follett

    Series: Routledge Library Editions: Organizations

    A pioneer in the fields of organizational theory and behaviour Mary Parker Follett authored a number of books and numerous essays, articles and speeches on human relations, political philosophy, psychology and management. The first woman invited to address the London School of Economics, this book...

    Published March 19th 2013 by Routledge
37. Organizations Alike and Unlike (RLE: Organizations)

    International and Inter-Institutional Studies in the Sociology of Organizations

    Edited by Cornelis Lammers, David Hickson

    Series: Routledge Library Editions: Organizations

    This volume contrasts the life and problems of organizations in many parts of the world and highlights the differences between those societies as reflected in their different institutional sectors such as manufacturing, commerce, social services and government administration. In so doing, the book...

    Published March 19th 2013 by Routledge
38. Social Psychology of the Work Organization (RLE: Organizations)

    By Arnold Tannenbaum

    Series: Routledge Library Editions: Organizations

    This book discusses social psychological research in organizations and illustrates the implications of this research for organizational theory and practice. The book focuses on the relationship of man to the organization in which he works; his sense of satisfaction, involvement, feelings of...

    Published March 19th 2013 by Routledge
39. Leadership and Organization (RLE: Organizations)

    A Behavioural Science Approach

    By Robert Tannenbaum, Irving Weschler, Fred Massarik

    Series: Routledge Library Editions: Organizations

    This book represents a selected collection of the writings, from 1950 to 1960, of members of the Human Relations Research Group (HRRG), from UCLA. The writings are followed by independent comments and appraisal from different viewpoints, prepared by distinguished experts in management theory, group...

    Published March 19th 2013 by Routledge
40. Global Cities

    Edited by Peter Taylor, Jonathan Beaverstock, Ben Derudder, James Faulconbridge, John Harrison, Michael Hoyler, Kathy Pain, Frank Witlox

    Series: Critical Concepts in Urban Studies

    A striking consequence of contemporary globalization has been an increase in the importance and prestige of cities. Whereas only a generation or so ago cities were commonly viewed as ‘problems’, the sites of society’s ills, today they are more readily seen as ‘solutions’, places where twenty-first...

    Published December 10th 2012 by Routledge