Workers' Attitudes and Technology
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Part of Cambridge Papers in Sociology
- Authors:
- Dorothy Wedderburn, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, London
- Rosemary Crompton, University of East Anglia
- Date Published: July 1972
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521097116
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First published in 1922, this volume aimed to contribute to our understanding of the complexities which shape attitudes and behaviour at work. Based on material obtained from a survey of workers employed by a single firm - who operate production systems as widely as different as continuous-flow chemical production and yarn spinning - this book highlights features of the production system which are crucial in influencing attitudes and behaviour within the work setting. Through a comparison of craftsmen and semi-skilled workers, it also illustrates the influence of differences of expectations upon work attitudes and behaviour. The authors reject any approach which could be called technologically determinist but nonetheless seek to show that a comparative approach to the study of behaviour in organizations may still fruitfully take as its starting-point technology and the systems of control which are devised for the planning and execution of the task.
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- Date Published: July 1972
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521097116
- length: 176 pages
- dimensions: 216 x 140 x 10 mm
- weight: 0.23kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
List of tables
Acknowledgements
1. Technology and the study of organisations
2. the company and the technology
3. A comparison of attitudes and behaviour
4. Work tasks and attitudes
5. The workers' backgrounds
6. The environment of the works
7. The control system and social relationships between supervisor and supervised
8. Conclusions
Bibliography
Index.
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