Challenging Women - Gender, Culture and Organization

This book offers a radical reassessment of organizational forces for change and barriers encountered by the `challenging women' - senior women managers faced with the task of transforming their organizations. Much has been written about women at work, the `glass ceiling' and discriminatory employment practices. This study is seminal in the linkage it makes between gender, innovation and organizational transformation. The book highlights the implications of this for all types of organizations and women managers everywhere.

List of contents

Introduction
Management Innovation
Management Style, Gender and the Professions
Working at the Paradigm Shift
Personal Agency, Having a Mind for a Change
Resistance to Women
Gender Cultures, Tactics and Strategies
Gender Narratives
British Public Sector Reforms
Innovative Women are Challenging Women
Barriers to Transformation
Transformation
A Gendered Process, Post-Command, Post-Market and Post Post-Postmodern

About the author

Su Maddock is Senior Research Fellow at Manchester Business School. She has worked as an organizational design consultant in the public sector.

Summary

A reassessment of organizational forces for change, and the barriers encountered by the "challenging women" (women mangers faced with the task of transforming their organizations). The linkage made between gender culture, innovation, and organizational transformation is a key feature of the book.

Product details

• Authors: Su Maddock, Sue Maddock, Maddock Sue
• Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 05.07.1999
• EAN: 9780761951506
• ISBN: 978-0-7619-5150-6
• No. of pages: 272
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Management; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political administration; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Management, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Women in Business, Management & management techniques, Gender studies: women, Gender studies: women and girls, Management and management techniques, Civil service and public sector, Civil Service & Public Sector, Women in Management;Organizational Behavior