Casting the Other - The Production and Maintenance of Inequalities in Work Organizations

About the author

Barbara Czarniawska is the Skandia Chair of Management at the Gothenburg Research Institute, School of Economics and Commercial Law, Gothenburg University. She is the co-editor of the journal Studies in Cultures, Organizations and Societies and is the book editor of the Scandinavian Journal of Management.
Heather Hopfl is Head of the School of Operations Analysis and Human Resource Management at the University of Northumbria, Newcastle.

Summary

Emphasizing 'difference' as something to be managed can cause organizations to institute the 'problem of difference', so that attempts to remove inequality may actually promote it by making differences visible and stable.

Product details

• Assisted by: Barbara Czarniawska (Editor), Czarniawska Barbara (Editor), Heather Hopfl (Editor), Hopfl Heather (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 02.05.2002
• EAN: 9780415275019
• ISBN: 978-0-415-27501-9
• No. of pages: 240
• Weight: 600 g
• Illustrations: Tabellen, schwarz-weiss
• Series: Routledge Studies in Management, Organizations and Society
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Social structure research; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, Social discrimination & inequality, Gender studies, gender groups, Personnel & human resources management, Personnel and human resources management, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination, Social discrimination and social justice, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Workplace Harassment & Discrimination