This Article Full Text (PDF) References Alert me when this article is cited Alert me if a correction is posted Services Email this article to a friend Similar articles in this journal Alert me to new issues of the journal Add to Saved Citations Download to citation manager Request Permissions Request Reprints Add to My Marked Citations Citing Articles Citing Articles via HighWire Citing Articles via Google Scholar Citing Articles via Scopus Google Scholar Articles by Cooper, R. Search for Related Content Social Bookmarking                         What's this?

Some Remarks on Theoretical Individualism, Alienation, and Work

Department of Behavior in Organizations, University of Lancaster

This paper offers some comments on the relationship between the "individualistic" bias in social scientific conceptions of human behavior and studies of work and organization. It is claimed that such bias suppresses the real nature of the work process which is "communicative" or dialectical and produces an "alienated" conception of social life. Two models of work -the rational and natural models, derived from the writings of Gouldner and Habermas - are then briefly discussed.

Human Relations, Vol. 36, No. 8, 717-723 (1983)
DOI: 10.1177/001872678303600803


CiteULike    Complore    Connotea    Del.icio.us    Digg    Reddit    Technorati    Twitter    What's this?

This article has been cited by other articles:

				A. Prasad and P. Prasad Reconceptualizing Alienation in Management Inquiry: Critical Organizational Scholarship and Workplace Empowerment Journal of Management Inquiry, June 1, 1993; 2(2): 169 - 183. [Abstract]

				S. Srivastval and D. L. Cooperrider The Emergence of the Egalitarian Organization Human Relations, August 1, 1986; 39(8): 683 - 724. [Abstract] [PDF]