Understanding gender and organizations / Mats Alvesson and Yvonne Due Billing.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Alvesson, Mats, 1956-

Contributor:

Billing, Yvonne Due.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Organizational behavior.

Management--Sex differences.

Management.

Sex role in the work environment.

Social psychology--Sex differences.

Social psychology.

Sex differences.

Physical Description:

266 pages ; 24 cm

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

London : SAGE, 2009.

Summary:

Electronic Inspection Copy available for instructors here '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.

Contents:

1 Introduction: The many faces of gender and organization 1

2 Different perspectives on gender 20

3 Division of labour and sex typing 49

4 Masculinities, femininities and work 70

5 Gender and identity 96

6 Gender, organizational culture and sexuality 117

7 Women in management 143

8 Women in management II: Four positions 164

9 Broadening the agenda 188

10 Reconstructing gender and organization studies 214.

Notes:

Previous ed.: 1997.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781848600164

184860016X

1848600178

9781848600171

OCLC:

300404203