Organisation Theory

Paul Thompson and David McHugh

Chapter 1 in Work Organisations, 1990, pp 13-46 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract As citizens of an industrial society we tend to have a love-hate relationship with large-scale organisations. We frequently berate them for being bureaucratic and wasteful and for placing us under the shadow of big brother. Yet we take them for granted as providers of employment, public welfare, private services, and even charity or other voluntary activities. In the not-so-distant past, information, leisure, economic needs and other basic life processes were more likely to be directly and locally produced or consumed. Now, complex economic, social and political organisations provide a network of individual and social relationships through which we participate in society.

Keywords: Industrial Society; Human Relation; Work Organisation; Labour Process; Capitalist Society (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1990
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-20741-1_2

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