Local Orders: Dynamics of Organized Action

by David Lewin (Editor), Erhard Friedberg (Editor)

Overview

This handbook compiles the latest knowledge in critical areas of human resource management, including employee financial and non-financial participation in the enterprise, employer flexibility, unions, collective bargaining and workplace dispute resolution.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781559389211
Publisher:	Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Publication date:	08/22/1997
Series:	Monographs in Organizational Behavior & Industrial Relations , #19
Pages:	320
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.79(d)

Table of Contents

Introduction - organization and collective action. Part 1 Dismantling the idea of organization: affectivity and calculus - the relativization of rationality; from instrumental organization to organized anarchies - questioning organization cohesion; the organization and its environment - fuzzy organizational borders. Part 2 From organization to organized action: the structuration of contexts of action - interdependence, negotiated exchange and the sustainability of actors; the mixed regulation of field of action - the notion of a concrete system of action; local orders and social regulation. Part 3 The organizational approach to collective action - elements of a mode of reasoning: actors and their rationality; the contingency of actors - the notion of system; power as capacity for action. Part 4 The organizational approach as a tool - implications for research and action: the construction of a grounded theory - induction and pragmatic value in analyses; the importance of the strategy of change; a cognitive operation - the gamble on knowledge and reasoning. Conclusion - another way of relating theory to practice.