Joan Woodward
Joan Woodward (* 1916 ; † 1971 ) was a British organizational and industrial sociologist .
She began her academic career at the University of Liverpool. 1953–57 she headed the Human Relations Research Unit at South East Essex Technical College. From 1958 she taught and researched at the Imperial College of Science and Technology at the University of London, where she introduced industrial sociology as a subject. In 1970 she was appointed professor of industrial sociology . She was the second woman who had received a full professor at this college .
Her work Industrial Organization (1965) is one of the classics of organizational theory . This work gave the situational approach in organizational theory decisive impulses. He overcame the notion of the “one best way” of organizational design, as the classic management theory of Fayol and Taylor and Max Weber's bureaucratic approach had taught.
In her innovative pioneering research, Woodward examined 100 Central English industrial companies with the question of the connection between production technology , managerial control system and economic success. The most important result was that (successful) companies with similar manufacturing systems had similar piping systems. She arranged the production techniques according to their complexity and summarized them into three main types (small batch production , mass production , continuous or process production), to which she assigned specific organizational forms (compatible with the production technique) for the implementation and control of production.
Fonts
- The Dockworker (1955)
- The Saleswoman: A Study of Attitudes and Behavior in Retail Distribution (1960)
- Industrial Organization: Theory and Practice (1965)
- Industrial Organization: Behavior and Control (1970)
literature
- Derek S. Pugh / David J. Hickson : Writers on Organizations . Fourth Edition. Penguin, London 1989; Chapter Joan Woodward , pp. 16-21, ISBN 0-14-009150-5
- Klaus Türk (Ed.): Main works of organizational theory , Westdeutscher Verlag, Wiesbaern 2000, pp. 339–341, ISBN 3-531-22186-8
Individual evidence
- ↑ Mike Geppert, in: Klaus Türk (ed.): Hauptwerke der Organizationstheorie, Westdeutscher Verlag, Wiesbaern 2000, p. 339 f.
- ^ Giuseppe Bonazzi: History of organizational thinking . VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2008, p. 300.
- ^ Giuseppe Bonazzi: History of organizational thinking . VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2008, p. 300 f.
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| SURNAME | Woodward, Joan |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British organizational and industrial sociologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1916 |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1971 |