Gender Power And Organization

Author : Paula Nicolson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2015-06-10
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317537298

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Gender, Power and Organization by Paula Nicolson Pdf

Work organizations are a major site of gender politics for professional women and men, and although there are more women in senior positions than ever before, these increased opportunities have not been gained without psychological consequences. Evidence-based and theoretically driven, the new edition of Gender, Power and Organization raises important questions about gender and power in the workplace, and the psychology of women’s advancement. Twenty years on from the first edition, it re-examines gender relations at work and asks why, despite many years of feminist critique and action, we are able to understand the dynamics of the workplace but fail to make them more representative. The struggles women face in professional and public life remain intense, not least because many men experience an increasing sense of threat to their long-term aspirations and professional positions. Using examples from recent research and the author's own consultancy experience, this important volume offers a fresh exploration of the psychology of gender and power at work, from the development of gender identities and roles, to explanations of bullying and sexual harassment in the organization. It offers an accessible survey of the subject for professional managers and students of leadership, psychology, management, sociology, gender, and women’s studies.

Author : Susan Halford
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2018-06-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781349911837

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Gender, Power and Organisations by Susan Halford Pdf

This important text demonstrates the range of ways in which gender can be seen to be an integral part of organisational life. Through a lively and detailed exploration of the structures and processes of organisations, the authors bring to life the ways in which gender is performed, maintained and reproduced in many of the corporations and institutions in which we work. A wide range of research on gender, race and other forms of social difference is drawn upon to reveal how divisions and inequalities remain a significant aspect of work and organisations in spite of the fact that high profile is given to women who 'make it' to the top. At the same time, evidence is also presented to show how these persistent structural differences are variously contested and challenged by both women and men. The authors discuss how these contradictory factors can be usefully interpreted by developing our understanding of the ways in which power operates in organisations. By developing a multi-dimensional approach to understanding power, the richness and diversity of gender relations within contemporary organisations is explained. Through its full discussion of key theoretical concepts and its insightful look at the ways in which these interweave with substantive areas of organisational life, this book is the perfect text both for readers who are new to the subject and who are already engaged in the field.

Author : Paula Nicolson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2015-06-10
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317537304

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Gender, Power and Organization by Paula Nicolson Pdf

Work organizations are a major site of gender politics for professional women and men, and although there are more women in senior positions than ever before, these increased opportunities have not been gained without psychological consequences. Evidence-based and theoretically driven, the new edition of Gender, Power and Organization raises important questions about gender and power in the workplace, and the psychology of women’s advancement. Twenty years on from the first edition, it re-examines gender relations at work and asks why, despite many years of feminist critique and action, we are able to understand the dynamics of the workplace but fail to make them more representative. The struggles women face in professional and public life remain intense, not least because many men experience an increasing sense of threat to their long-term aspirations and professional positions. Using examples from recent research and the author's own consultancy experience, this important volume offers a fresh exploration of the psychology of gender and power at work, from the development of gender identities and roles, to explanations of bullying and sexual harassment in the organization. It offers an accessible survey of the subject for professional managers and students of leadership, psychology, management, sociology, gender, and women’s studies.

Author : Paula Nicolson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781134849130

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Gender, Power and Organisation by Paula Nicolson Pdf

Work organisations have become a major site of gender politics for professional women and men over the last twenty years. There are more senior women today, but increased opportunities have not been gained without psychological consequences. Rather than catalogue the barriers to women's success, Paula Nicholson examines the problems they can face as a result. She re-examines the ways that patriarchal structures resist women's progress, and how male success has psychological implications for women's sense of subjectivity, self-esteem and gener identity, and how achieving against such odds has an impact on women's everyday lives.

Author : Andria D. Timmer,Elizabeth Wirtz
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2022-05-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781800734616

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Gender, Power, and Non-Governance by Andria D. Timmer,Elizabeth Wirtz Pdf

Using Sherry Ortner’s analogy of Female/Nature, Male/Culture, this volume interrogates the gendered aspects of governance by exploring the NGO/State relationship. By examining how NGOs/States perform gendered roles and actions and the gendered divisions of labor involved in different types of institutional engagement, this volume attends to the ways in which gender and governance constitute flexible, relational, and contingent systems of power. The chapters in this volume present diverse analyses of the ways in which projects of governance both reproduce and challenge binaries.

Author : Susan Halford,Pauline Leonard
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Corporate culture
ISBN : 0312237448

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Gender, Power and Organisations by Susan Halford,Pauline Leonard Pdf

This important book offers an overview and synthesis of theory and research into the gendered dimension of organizations, exploring how gender difference is constructed within organizations and intertwined with organizational power relations. Assuming little prior knowledge on the part of the reader, it examines a series of key areas of substantive interest in the study of organizations, bringing to bear a wide range of social and feminist theory in understanding the processes in play.

Author : Harriet Bradley
Publisher : Red Globe Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780333681787

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Gender and Power in the Workplace by Harriet Bradley Pdf

On gender discrimination in the workplace.

Author : Marianna Fotaki,Nancy Harding
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2017-10-02
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781135106065

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Gender and the Organization by Marianna Fotaki,Nancy Harding Pdf

Discussions of feminism and gender in organizations and management studies, have, with some notable exceptions, become stuck in something of a time-warp. This lies in stark contrast to the developments in the fields of feminism and gender theory more generally. Management and organization studies needs new applied topical gender theories that challenge the limits on what can be said about working lives in organizations. Gender and the Organization: Women at Work in the 21st Century looks to update management organizational studies with the recent developments in gender theory, including theories of embodiment, affect, materiality, identity, subjectification, recognition, and the intertwining of political, social and the psyche. As well as looking backwards at existing feminist and gender theory, this exciting book also looks forward, developing an organizational feminist theory for the twenty-first century. Exploring what feminist ethics of an organization would look like, this volume shows what a revivified feminist organization studies could offer to gender theorists more generally. This book will be of interest not only to management and organization theorists, but also more generally to feminist and gender theorists working across the social sciences, arts and humanities. It will appeal to postgraduate and research students and also to established organization and management scholars working in business schools across the world.

Author : Joyce K. Fletcher
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2001-06-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0262250225

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Disappearing Acts by Joyce K. Fletcher Pdf

Joyce Fletcher's research shows that emotional intelligence and relational behavior are often viewed as inappropriate because they collide with powerful, gender-linked images. This study of female design engineers has profound implications for attempts to change organizational culture. Joyce Fletcher's research shows that emotional intelligence and relational behavior are often viewed as inappropriate because they collide with powerful, gender-linked images. Fletcher describes how organizations say they need such behavior and yet ignore it, thus undermining the possibility of radical change. She shows why the "female advantage" does not seem to be benefit women employees or organizations. She offers ways that individuals and organizations can make visible the invisible work.

Author : Pat O'Connor,Kate White
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2021-08-24
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783030696870

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Gender, Power and Higher Education in a Globalised World by Pat O'Connor,Kate White Pdf

This book examines persistent gender inequality in higher education, and asks what is preventing change from occurring. The editors and contributors argue that organizational resistance to gender equality is the key explanation; reflected in the endorsement of discourses such as excellence, choice, distorted intersectionality, revitalized biological essentialism and gender neutrality. These discourses implicitly and explicitly depict the status quo as appropriate, reasonable and fair: ultimately impeding efforts and attempts to promote gender equality. Drawing on research from around the world, this book explores the limits and possibilities of challenging these harmful discourses, focusing on the state and universities themselves as levers for change. It stresses the importance of institutional transformation, the vital contribution of feminist activists and the importance of women’s deceptively ‘small victories’ in the academy.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2024-07-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781134849147

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Gender, Power and Organisation by Anonim Pdf

Author : Agnes Bolsø,Stine Helena Bang Svendsen,Siri Øyslebø Sørensen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2017-10-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781315308937

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Bodies, Symbols and Organizational Practice by Agnes Bolsø,Stine Helena Bang Svendsen,Siri Øyslebø Sørensen Pdf

Despite all the efforts to promote change, power and authority still seem to be permanently associated with the white, the straight and the masculine, both symbolically and in the everyday world of organizations. As the intricate relationship between the symbolic and the everyday remains under-researched, this anthology proposes a transdisciplinary feminist perspective drawing on the humanities in order to explore the complex nature of the gendered politics of organizations. Indeed, analyzing how images, narratives, symbols and bodies are all part of how power and gender are constructed in organizations through a broad and international range of empirical studies, Bodies, Symbols and Organizational Practice explores issues at the interstices of the humanities and social sciences, combining theoretical and analytical perspectives from both areas. Providing a radical analysis of the gendered dynamics of power as well as petitioning for radical intervention into those dynamics, this timely volume will appeal to postgraduate students and postdoctoral researchers interested in fields such as: Organization and Management Studies, Gender studies, Feminist theory and Sociology of Work & Industry.

Author : Robert McMurray,Alison Pullen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 151 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2019-11-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000753219

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Gender, Embodiment and Fluidity in Organization and Management by Robert McMurray,Alison Pullen Pdf

This third volume in the Routledge Focus on Women Writers in Organization Studies series challenges us to think again about the implications of gender, embodiment and fluidity for organizing and managing. The themes of this book disrupt our understanding of dualisms between sex (men and women), gender (masculinity and femininity) and mind / body, and in so doing analyze the ways in which dominant power relations constitute heteronormativity throughout organizational history, thereby reinforcing mainstream management research and teaching. By centring the work of women writers, this book gives recognition to their thinking and praxis; each writer making political inroads into changing the lived experiences of those who have suffered discrimination, exclusion and marginalization as they consider the ways in which organizational knowledge has tended to privilege rather than problematize masculinity, fixity, control, normativity, violence and discrimination. The themes and authors (Acker, de Beauvoir, Halberstam, Kosofsky Sedgwick, Kristeva, Yourcenar) covered in this book are important precisely because they are not generally encountered in mainstream writing on management and organization studies. They are significant to the study and analysis of organizations because they demonstrate how our understanding of managing and organizing can be transformed when other voices/bodies/genders write on what it is work, live, lead and relate to self and others. All the writers turn to the ways in which individuals matter organizationally, acknowledging that lived experiences are a source of political and ethical practice. Each Woman Writer is introduced and analyzed by experts in organization studies. Further reading and accessible resources are also identified for those interested in knowing more. This book will be relevant to students, researchers and practitioners with an interest in business and management, organizational studies, critical management studies, gender studies and sociology. Like all the books in this series, it will also be of interest to anyone who wants to see, think and act differently.

Author : Catherine Itzen,Janet Newman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781134832613

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Gender, Culture and Organizational Change by Catherine Itzen,Janet Newman Pdf

An engaging contribution to the increasing body of knowledge about gender and organizations, Gender, Culture and Organizational Change examines gender-based inequality in organizations and considers how sexual and social relations between women and men based on sexuality, power and control determine the cultures, structures and practices of organization and the experiences of men and women working in them. Gender, Culture and Organizational Change represents a decade of experience of managing change and implementing theory in public sector organizations during a period of major social, political and economic transition and analyses the progress that has been made. It expands to make wider connections with women and trade unions in Europe and management development for women in the "developing" countries of Africa and Asia. It will be valuable reading for students in social policy, gender studies and sociology and for professionals with an interest in understanding the dynamics of the workplace.

Author : Georgia Duerst-Lahti,Rita Mae Kelly
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0472066102

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Gender Power, Leadership, and Governance by Georgia Duerst-Lahti,Rita Mae Kelly Pdf

Investigates how notions of masculinity and femininity inform ideology, political action, and institutional prejudice