The Philosophy of Management

By Oliver Sheldon

Taylorism was criticised for its over-simplistic view of what motivated the worker. Oliver Sheldon's theme was that though Taylorism had helped the development of a...

2003 | Hardback: 978-0-415-27984-0 (Routledge)

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Dynamic Administration

The Collected Papers of Mary Parker Follett

Edited by Henry C. Metcalf, L. Urwick

Mary Parker Follett was a prominent business philosopher of the period, who agreed with Sheldon about the need to emphasize human factors in management, but...

2003 | Hardback: 978-0-415-27985-7 (Routledge)

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Papers on the Science of Administration

Edited by Luther Gulick, L. Urwick

This edited collection includes contributions by Mary Parker Follett, Henri Fayol, James D. Mooney and Henry S. Dennison, and L. J. Henderson, T. N. Whitehead...

2003 | Hardback: 978-0-415-27986-4 (Routledge)

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Management and the Worker

By William J. Dickson, F. J. Roethlisberger

This is the official account of the experiments carried out at the Hawthorne Works of the Eastern Electric Company in Chicago. These were divided into...

2003 | Hardback: 978-0-415-27987-1 (Routledge)

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The Human Problems of an Industrial Civilization

By Elton Mayo

In this volume Mayo discusses the Hawthorne experiments, relating the findings about human relations within the Hawthorne plant to the social environment in the surrounding...

2003 | Hardback: 978-0-415-27988-8 (Routledge)

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Organization and Management

Selected Papers

By Chester I. Barnard

Barnard was prompted by Vilfredo Pareto's seminal four volume work Mind and Society to apply his theories of sociology to management studies. Barnard's study of...

2003 | Hardback: 978-0-415-27989-5 (Routledge)

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On the Shop Floor

Two Studies of Workshop Organization and Output

By T. Lupton

Lupton's empirical study used real work groups rather than experimental groups working in post-war factories in Britain to arrive at a more sympathetic and informed...

2003 | Hardback: 978-0-415-27990-1 (Routledge)

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Early Sociology of Management and Organizations

Edited by Kenneth Thompson

The early development of the sociology of management and organizations has to be viewed in relation to the emergence, at the beginning of the twentieth...

2003 | Hardback: 978-0-415-27982-6 (Routledge)

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Sexuality

By Jeffrey Weeks, Jeffrey Weeks

We are almost programmed into thinking of our sexuality as a wholly natural feature of life. But sexual relations are but one form of social...

2003 | Paperback: 978-0-415-28286-4 (Routledge)

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Capitalism and Citizenship

The Impossible Partnership

By Kathryn Dean

Can capitalism and citizenship co-exist? In recent years advocates of the Third Way have championed the idea of public-spirited capitalism as the antidote to the...

2003 | Paperback: 978-0-415-27274-2 (Routledge)

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