Man and Organization (Routledge Revivals)

Man and Organization (Routledge Revivals)
Author: John Child
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 264
Release: 2012-08-06
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1136716246

First published in 1973, this volume concentrates upon contemporary issues of a theoretical and methodological nature in the study of organizations. The contributors are concerned with contemporary ways of explaining the sociological role of modern organizations and work within them. They cover questions of understanding employee behaviour, of careers, of industrial relations, and of the future of management and organizations as we know them with a thorough examination of prevailing assumptions.

Man and the Social Sciences (Routledge Revivals)

Man and the Social Sciences (Routledge Revivals)
Author: William Alexander Robson
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 259
Release: 2014-02-04
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1317828887

One of the most significant movements in the world of learning in the twentieth century was the rise and development of the social sciences. However, few attempts have been made to see how far social scientists have travelled on the road to studying and understanding human society. First published in 1972, the lectures reprinted in this book aim to trace the development of the social sciences during the twentieth century and to show the role of the London School of Economics and Political Science in this development since it was founded in 1895. Each of the very distinguished lecturers was asked to take the larger view, to be critical where necessary, to treat his subject in the context of the world of learning. The result is a survey of exceptional interest in which the growth of the social sciences is analysed from a number of contrasting viewpoints, each of which ranges widely and often with provocative brilliance over themes that are of general concern. The introduction by Professor W.A. Robson, which was not part of the original lecture series, is in itself a critical assessment of the field that will be read with close attention.

Routledge Revivals: Man and Technics (1932)

Routledge Revivals: Man and Technics (1932)
Author: Oswald Spengler
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 59
Release: 2016-11-10
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1351980947

First published in 1932, this book, based on an address delivered in 1931, presents a concise and lucid summary of the philosophy of the author of The Decline of the West, Oswald Spengler. It was his conviction that the technical age — the culture of the machine age — which man had created in virtue of his unique capacity for individual as well as racial technique, had already reached its peak, and that the future held only catastrophe. He argued it lacked progressive cultural life and instead was dominated by a lust for power and possession. The triumph of the machine led to mass regimentation rather than fewer workers and less work — spelling the doom of Western civilization.

Routledge Revivals: Towards a New Theory of Organizations (1994)

Routledge Revivals: Towards a New Theory of Organizations (1994)
Author: John Hassard
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 451
Release: 2016-09-19
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1315300095

First published in 1994, the essays collected in this book explore the impact and current status of the ideas put forth in David Silverman’s The Theory of Organizations, and how they relate to future directions in organization theory. After opening with a chapter by Silverman himself, the subsequent chapters investigate key issues in the study of organizations, including structure and agency, the politics of organization theory, and the meanings of post-positivist organizational analysis. Contemporaneous debates on postmodernism, the emotions, gender and structuration are discussed in the context of the development of organizational theory in the preceding twenty-five years — providing insights into the continuities within organizational theory and provoking thought about future directions.

Routledge Handbook on Men, Masculinities and Organizations

Routledge Handbook on Men, Masculinities and Organizations
Author: Jeff Hearn
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 606
Release: 2023-11-24
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1000982890

This Handbook provides new theoretical and empirical insights into men, men’s practices and masculinities across many kinds of organizations and forms of organizing. Most mainstream studies of organizations, leadership and management do not seem to notice they are often talking a lot about men and masculinities. The Handbook challenges this general tendency to avoid gendering men by bringing together a range of theoretical and methodological approaches that: engage with not only formal organizations, such as businesses and state organizations, but also processes of organizing within and beyond organizations; address emergent and future issues on men, masculinities and organizations, such as tech masculinities, men’s emotions, sexualities and violences, animal advocacy and environmental issues, and men and masculinities in pandemics. Targeted at scholars, policymakers, practitioners and students interested in links between men, masculinities, organizations and organizing, this landmark Handbook is an invaluable resource for those working in and beyond such fi elds as gender studies, organization, leadership and management studies, political science, sociology, social and public policy, and social movement studies.

Appraising and Exploring Organisations (Routledge Revivals)

Appraising and Exploring Organisations (Routledge Revivals)
Author: Shaun Tyson
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 242
Release: 2012-11-12
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1136460543

First published in 1988, this book offers a comprehensive description of the functions and performance of organisational surveys from a wide range of European experts in the field. The book examines the utility of organisational surveys as a method of research for the social sciences and as a support for employee relations strategies and personnel policies. It looks at the broad question of 'what are the key dimensions of an organisation with which managers and researchers should be concerned?' and at how they can be an essential element in a participative management approach to employee relations. Throughout, the book emphasizes the utility of surveys for the study and understanding of organisations.

Social Theory as Science (Routledge Revivals)

Social Theory as Science (Routledge Revivals)
Author: Russell Keat
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 216
Release: 2011-01-31
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1136839240

This book, written by a philosopher interested in the problems of social science and scientific method, and a sociologist interested in the philosophy of science, presents a novel conception of how we should think about and carry out the scientific study of social life. This book combines an evaluation of different conceptions of the nature of science with an examination of important sociological theorists and frameworks. This second edition of the work was originally published in 1982.

The British Way in Warfare 1688 - 2000 (Routledge Revivals)

The British Way in Warfare 1688 - 2000 (Routledge Revivals)
Author: David French
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 285
Release: 2014-07-17
Genre: History
ISBN: 1317598989

First published in 1990, this title examines British defence policy from 1688 onwards; the year in which Britain was successfully invaded for the final time, and which marked a generation of warfare that lasted until 1714, during which Britain came to be known as a major European power. David French considers the strategic alliances that formed and changed throughout the period, and tests his hypotheses in light of the varying paradigms of war, and British wartime and peacetime practices. The ways in which the needs of both the army and the navy have been balanced over time are analysed, with particular attention paid to how parliament allotted money and resources to each. Wars under discussion include the American War of Independence, and the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. A detailed and critical title, this reissue will be of great value to history students studying Early Modern diplomacy, with a particular emphasis on the strategic development of British warfare and policy, and the place of Britain within the European power structure.

Aristocratic Society in Ancient Crete (Routledge Revivals)

Aristocratic Society in Ancient Crete (Routledge Revivals)
Author: R. F. Willetts
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 296
Release: 2014-04-08
Genre: History
ISBN: 1317752953

Aristocratic Society in Ancient Crete, first published in 1955, investigates the emergence and progress of Dorian society on Crete from the 8th century BC onwards. The major contribution of Cretan culture in this period was in the field of law – law and order are traditionally linked, and Dorian Crete remained steadfast in its pursuit of order. The author offers an explanation for the protracted aristocratic character of Cretan society, basing his study on the crucial Code of Gortyna. The primitive foundations of the social system are examined, illuminating the tribal institutions which formed the basis of the aristocratic states which developed. The four classes of the Cretan states, and the mutual relations of these classes, are defined, and the stages whereby family institutions developed are analysed. Finally, political and judicial organisation is scrutinised, and the Cretan culture is situated in the wider horizon of Mediterranean civilisation.

Routledge Revivals: Poor Labouring Men (1985)

Routledge Revivals: Poor Labouring Men (1985)
Author: Alun Howkins
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 209
Release: 2016-10-04
Genre: History
ISBN: 1315447827

First published in 1985, this book presents the first detailed account of the relationship between the farmworkers, trades unionism, and political and social radicalism. Rural radicalism, one of the most important new features of late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century politics, was particularly strong in Norfolk and as such provides the focus for this study. The author shows the how relationship between ‘master and man’ and ‘man’ and ‘work’ was changing in the period from the 1870s to the 1920s — ending with the great strike of 1923. The main themes are the shifts from religion to politics, from Liberalism to Labour, and in more general terms from local to national consciousness. The book shows men at work and the ways in which politics meshed — or failed to mesh — together. Based on detailed local research and on many hours of recorded interviews, it enables the voice of the labourer to be heard, and a real sense of hope, fear and aspiration to come through.