Understanding gender and organizations
By: Mats Alvesson and Yvonne Due Billing.
Contributors: Billing, Yvonne Due.
Publisher: SAGE
Published: 1997
Place of publication: London; Thousand Oaks, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 248
Subjects: Organizational behavior.; Corporate culture.; Sexual division of labor.; Businessmen.; Businesswomen.
Notes: Bibliography: p. [230]-242.
Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Preface vii; title: 1 Introduction 1; title: Organizations and gender - a neglected area 5; title: The idea of gender studies: sensitizing thinking 9; title: Gender over-and under-sensitivity 12; title: On readership and limitations 17; title: The outline of the book 18; title: 2 Different Perspectives on Gender 21; title: The 'gender-as-a-variable' perspective 24; title: The feminist standpoint perspective 29; title: Poststructuralist feminism 37; title: A critical-interpretive perspective 44; title: A research 'agenda' based on all three perspectives? 51; title: 3 Gender and Work 54; title: A brief history of work 54; title: Contemporary work, horizontal and vertical division of; title: labour 60; title: Different ways of understanding women's and men's positions; title: in the labour market 65; title: Macro-level 65; title: 4 Masculinities, Femininities and Work 82; title: Some views on masculinity and femininity 83; title: Division of labour, sex typing and gender symbolism 90; title: Masculinities, femininities and identity 96; title: Summary 99; title: 5 Gender, Organizational Culture and Sexuality 103; title: On organizational culture 103; title: Pressure for homogeneity and culturally competent; title: behaviour 107; title: Illustrating culture: rituals, artefacts and metaphors 109; title: One-gendered workplaces 114; title: Sexuality in organizations 120; title: Workplace culture and sexuality at Ludvig's Advertising; title: Agency 125; title: Summary 131; title: 6 Women and Management I: A Review of Research Results 134; title: Changing ideas on leadership 135; title: Explanations for the limited number of women in managerial; title: jobs 136; title: Style of leadership - women compared to men 143; title: Difficulties of women managers 147; title: Summary 150; title: 7 Women and Management II: Four Positions 153; title: The equal opportunities position 153; title: The meritocratic position 157; title: The special contribution position 161; title: The alternative values position 165; title: Comparing the approaches 170; title: Poststructuralist and critical-interpretive comments 175; title: Summary and final comment 176; title: 8 Broadening the Agenda: From Women to Gender Relations 180; title: On the problems of drawing firm conclusions 181; title: Integrating gender and organization 185; title: Gender as the fundamental organizing principle? 191; title: On interests 192; title: On alternative agendas 197; title: Some problems in 'anti-male' and 'anti-masculine' gender and; title: organization studies 199; title: Summary 205; title: 9 Reconstructing Gender and Organization Studies 209; title: Gendering organizational analysis and making gender studies; title: sensitive for organizational issues 209; title: On the social construction and deconstruction of gender:; title: beyond women and men 213; title: Defamiliarization of 'men' and 'women' 215; title: Final words 225; title: References 230; title: Index 243.