Gender Symbolism And Organizational Cultures

Author : Silvia Gherardi
Publisher : SAGE Publications Limited
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1995-11-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105018353065

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Gender, Symbolism and Organizational Cultures by Silvia Gherardi Pdf

The author discusses her focus upon the relations between gender, power and culture in organizations, and upon the need to come to grips with the pervasive, elusive and ambiguous nature of gender in work settings, including through allusive, metaphoric analyses. She introduces two key metaphors for the book. The first is of the sexual contract, which centres on the sexuality of organizations and 'static' gender difference. The second, of the alchemic wedding, highlights a plurality of cultural models of femaleness and woman/work relationships, and processes of dynamic difference, transformation and transcendence. Gender, Symbolism and Organizational Cultures will be essential reading for students and all those interested in issues of gender, power and change in organizations, in organizational theory and behaviour, the psychology and sociology of organizations, and women's studies.

Author : Catherine Itzen,Janet Newman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 53,6 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 : Iiris Aaltio,Albert J. Mills
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134490738

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Gender, Identity and the Culture of Organizations by Iiris Aaltio,Albert J. Mills Pdf

Gender, Identity and the Culture of Organizations considers how organizations operate as spaces in which minds are gendered and men and women constructed. This edited collection brings together four powerful themes that have developed within the field of organizational analysis over the past two decades: organizational culture; the gendering of organizations; post-modernism and organizational analysis; and critical approaches to management. A range of essays by distinguished writers from countries including the UK, USA, Canada, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, the Netherlands and Sweden, explore innovative methods for the critical theorizing of organizational cultures. In particular, the book reflects the growing interest in the impact of organizational identity formation and its implications for individuals and organizational outcomes in terms of gender. The book also introduces research designs, methods and methodologies by which can be used to explore the complex interrelationships between gender, identity and the culture of organizations.

Author : Agnes Bolsø,Stine Helena Bang Svendsen,Siri Øyslebø Sørensen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 41,7 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 : Mats Alvesson
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2002-03-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0761970061

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Understanding Organizational Culture by Mats Alvesson Pdf

The concept of culture is a key issue within management and organization studies. Understanding Organizational Culture provides a useful and comprehensive guide to understanding organizational culture, from a range of angles, contexts and sectors. The book answers questions of definition, explores alternative perspectives, and expands on substantive issues (such as leadership and change), before discussing key issues of research and providing a new framework for this topic. Mats Alvesson synthesizes for students the advances in the field of organizational culture, drawing upon the range of relevant literature within Organization Studies. The author also uses examples to develop and illustrate ideas on how cultural

Author : Iiris Aaltio,Albert J. Mills
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134490745

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Gender, Identity and the Culture of Organizations by Iiris Aaltio,Albert J. Mills Pdf

Gender, Identity and the Culture of Organizations considers how organizations operate as spaces in which minds are gendered and men and women constructed. This edited collection brings together four powerful themes that have developed within the field of organizational analysis over the past two decades: organizational culture; the gendering of organizations; post-modernism and organizational analysis; and critical approaches to management. A range of essays by distinguished writers from countries including the UK, USA, Canada, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, the Netherlands and Sweden, explore innovative methods for the critical theorizing of organizational cultures. In particular, the book reflects the growing interest in the impact of organizational identity formation and its implications for individuals and organizational outcomes in terms of gender. The book also introduces research designs, methods and methodologies by which can be used to explore the complex interrelationships between gender, identity and the culture of organizations.

Author : Mats Alvesson,Yvonne Due Billing
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2009-05-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781446246504

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Understanding Gender and Organizations by Mats Alvesson,Yvonne Due Billing Pdf

`An unusually comprehensive and sophisticated analysis of how organizations and the men and women who work within them are affected by gendered processes and relations. Alvesson and Billing′s contribution is unique in its sensitivity to the wide range of processes affected by gender paired with its sensitivity to the pitfalls of inappropriately applying a gender lens. This book is a must-read for organizational researchers and gender scholars′ - Debra Meyerson, Stanford University `Students and scholars alike will find this at once a useful overview and a thought-provoking take on the complexity of gender-in-organizations and gendered organizations′ - Robin J. Ely, Warren Alpert Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School In the decade since the first edition of this critical and provocative text, many aspects of gender have changed, and many have stayed the same. While the gendered study of organizations is a growing field in its own right, in many real-life organizations gaps in gendered job roles and pay are as entrenched as they were. This Second Edition is a long-awaited update to an essential text in this dynamic and expanding field of inquiry, incorporating new, international perspectives that incorporate recent theory and debate, and a new chapter on gender and identity.

Author : Joan Z. Spade,Catherine G. Valentine
Publisher : Pine Forge Press
Page : 609 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781412951463

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The Kaleidoscope of Gender by Joan Z. Spade,Catherine G. Valentine Pdf

"I have found Spade and Valentine's Kaleidoscope of Gender to be the most effective reader that I have used in my undergraduate Sociology of Gender class, and I was delighted to see what promises to be an even better second edition that recently arrived." -Linda Grant, University of Georgia "In a substantial theoretical introduction, Spade and Valentine move their discussion forward by introducing their kaleidoscope metaphor which is comprised of the "prisms" of culture...that intersect to produce patterns of difference and systems of privilege. Because it captures the fluidity and uniqueness of the intricate patterns, the kaleidoscope is a valuable analytical tool. Though it enters a terrain already littered with terminology, this "prismatic" understanding of gender has great potential for transforming current conceptualizations." -Jennifer Keys, North Central College Examining the elusive, evolving construct of gender in a unique text/ reader format An accessible, timely, and stimulating introduction to the sociology of gender, The Kaleidoscope of Gender: Prisms, Patterns, and Possibilities, Second Edition, provides a comprehensive analysis of key ideas, theories, and applications in this field as viewed through the metaphor of a kaleidoscope. This collection of creative articles by top scholars explains how the complex, evolving pattern of gender is constructed interpersonally, institutionally, and culturally and challenges students to question how gender shapes their daily lives. Like the prior edition, the Second Edition maintains a focus on contemporary contributions to the field while incorporating classical and theoretical arguments to provide a broad framework. Integrating a cross-cultural focus and intersectional inquiry, this unique text/reader

Author : Savita Kumra,Ruth Simpson,Ronald J. Burke
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 752 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2014-03-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780191632747

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The Oxford Handbook of Gender in Organizations by Savita Kumra,Ruth Simpson,Ronald J. Burke Pdf

The issue of gender in organizations has attracted much attention and debate over a number of years. The focus of examination is inequality of opportunity between the genders and the impact this has on organizations, individual men and women, and society as a whole. It is undoubtedly the case that progress has been made with women participating in organizational life in greater numbers and at more senior levels than has been historically the case, challenging notions that senior and/or influential organizational and political roles remain a masculine domain. The Oxford Handbook of Gender in Organizations is a comprehensive analysis of thinking and research on gender in organizations with original contributions from key international scholars in the field. The Handbook comprises four sections. The first looks at the theoretical roots and potential for theoretical development in respect of the topic of gender in organizations. The second section focuses on leadership and management and the gender issues arising in this field; contributors review the extensive literature and reflect on progress made as well as commenting on hurdles yet to be overcome. The third section considers the gendered nature of careers. Here the focus is on querying traditional approaches to career, surfacing embedded assumptions within traditional approaches, and assessing potential for alternative patterns to evolve, taking into account the nature of women's lives and the changing nature of organizations. In its final section the Handbook examines masculinity in organizations to assess the diversity of masculinities evident within organizations and the challenges posed to those outside the norm. In bringing together a broad range of research and thinking on gender in organizations across a number of disciplines, sub-disciplines, and conceptual perspectives, the Handbook provides a comprehensive view of both contemporary thinking and future research directions.

Author : Fiona M. Wilson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2017-05-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781351913393

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Organizational Behaviour and Gender by Fiona M. Wilson Pdf

Organizational Behaviour and Gender provides an alternative to the gender silence of the standard OB textbooks. This Second Edition updates and expands the text's coverage and employs the most recent research findings to portray the world of work in a realistic manner. Organizational Behaviour and Gender is a comprehensive text. The text examines some of the assumptions that have been made about women at work - for example that women's 'difference' is rooted in biology and that women and men have contrasting (and even polar opposite) skills and attitudes. The text considers the key topics in OB (such as selection, assessment,leadership and motivation) to test such assumptions. The book describes the reality of working life for women. It examines issues of low pay, part-time working, family responsibilities, home working and horizontal and vertical job segregation. It asks whether inequality of opportunity comes about because of actual gender differences or from prejudicial expectations and thinking. The last chapter is about sex and sexuality in organizations. Sexual behaviour in organizations is pervasive but is rarely discussed in OB textbooks. This chapter describes the masculine and heterosexual business environment and examines the issues of work romances and sexual harassment. The text provides numerous learning aids (including discussion topics and chapter questions) to assist both the lecturer and the student.

Author : Yvonne Due Billing,Mats Alvesson
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2015-02-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783110850499

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Gender, Managers, and Organizations by Yvonne Due Billing,Mats Alvesson Pdf

Author : Savita Kumra,Ruth Simpson,Ronald J. Burke
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 577 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780199658213

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The Oxford Handbook of Gender in Organizations by Savita Kumra,Ruth Simpson,Ronald J. Burke Pdf

... This Handbook focuses on organizations and the way in which their processes and practices systematically work to produce gender inequities.

Author : Sarah Rutherford
Publisher : Springer
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2011-09-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780230307476

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Women's Work, Men's Cultures by Sarah Rutherford Pdf

Corporate diversity programs often fail because of resistance in workplace culture. The author sets out an approach to real change by analysing the role of organisational cultures in marginalising women workers. Based on academic research, case studies and interviews, the author presents a new model for changing organisational culture

Author : Mats Alvesson
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2012-11-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781446271810

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Understanding Organizational Culture by Mats Alvesson Pdf

With his usual engaging and inimitable style, Mats Alvesson takes the reader on a riveting journey through the diverse ways in which culture itself can be understood and how these powerfully inform organizational life.′ - Blake E. Ashforth, Arizona State University ′Understanding Organizational Culture comunicates complex ideas in a manner that will illuminate for those who are less familiar with the concepts discussed, as well as providing a depth and critique of interest to those familiar with the topics.′ - Claire Valentin, The University of Edinburgh Unlike prescriptive books about organizations, Understanding Organizational Culture challenges and provokes the reader to think critically. It provides an insight into organizational culture, aided by numerous empirical illustrations from ethnographic studies that develop and illustrate how cultural thinking can be used in managerial and non-managerial organizational theory and practice. Mats Alvesson answers questions of definition, explores alternative perspectives and exands on substantive issues, before discussing key issues of research and developing his framework. Further more, the advances in the field of organizational culture are synthesized for the reader by drawing upon the range of relevant literature within organization studies. Understanding Organizational Culture provides great breadth within a textbook approach - covering a wide spectrum of management and organization while at the same time developing a new theoretical approach to organizational culture. The new edition contains improved pedagogy and expanded coverage of topics such as identity and organizational change. It is essential reading for students taking undergraduate and postgraduate modules in Organizational Behaviour and Organizational Theory on Management and Organization Studies programmes, including MBA.

Author : Mats Alvesson,Per O. Berg
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2011-05-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783110874310

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Corporate Culture and Organizational Symbolism by Mats Alvesson,Per O. Berg Pdf

Corporate Culture and Organizational Symbolism.