Transforming Managers: Engendering Change In The Public Sector (Gender, Change & Society.)

✍ Scribed by S. Whitehead

• Year: 1999
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 255
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

In the 1990s, considerable changes in the political and social world have impacted on the character of both public and private organizations. At a time of increased uncertainty and insecurity in these organizations, new ways of managing and being managed have emerged. Recognising that organizational life is part reflective and determined by dominant social discourses, factors of gender will inevitably be central to the dynamics of organizational change. This book addresses theoretical ideas and mythologies in the examination of gendered organizations. The need to examine men in relation to family, law and society in general is growing, and this book extends this interrogation to work and organizational life. It will be of interest to students in management studies, public sector management and those involved in public policy making as well as students and academics within gender studies and sociology.

✦ Table of Contents

Preliminaries......Page 1
Contents......Page 7
Notes on contributors......Page 9
Foreword......Page 12
Acknowledgements......Page 14
1 Introduction: locating personal and political transformations......Page 16
2 New women, new Labour? Gendered transformations in the House......Page 34
3 The under-representation of women managers in higher education......Page 48
4 Rhetoric versus reality......Page 66
5 Power and resistance in the academy......Page 82
6 How does it feel?......Page 100
7 In the company of men......Page 124
8 Men, managers and management......Page 140
9 Intermanagerial rivalries, organizational restructuring and the transformation of management masculinities......Page 162
10 A personal encounter......Page 182
11 The organization of intimacy......Page 200
12 Man management......Page 216
13 Masculine/managerial masks and the “other” subject......Page 230
Index......Page 250