ABSTRACT
The measurement of inter-occupational perceptions of influence provides useful comparative material on the differential attachment of employees to the control system. The condition of stable attachment to work control systems can be enhanced under conditions of high mutual influence over the control of certain valued work areas. The individual steelworker appeared to be socially located in a well-defined work system and decision-making system. To this extent the organization of steelwork and its traditions of industrial relations were apparently conducive to employee involvement in certain aspects of the control of their work situations. In many respects the steel industry provided a suitable research site for the study of integration and disintegration of systems of work control. The results of the research form part of a wider attempt to establish a model of social control in organizations and with particular reference to industrial organizations.
