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Record Nr.

UNINA9910778436203321

Titolo

Men as managers, managers as men [[electronic resource] ] : critical perspectives on men, masculinities, and managements / / edited by David L. Collinson and Jeff Hearn

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : SAGE, 1996

ISBN

1-4462-8010-1

9786612337093

1-282-33709-2

1-84920-827-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (x, 275 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

CollinsonDavid

HearnJeff <1947->

Disciplina

305.33658

Soggetti

Organizational behavior - Sex differences

Male employees

Executives - Sex differences

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [239]-265) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; Preface; The Contributors; 1 - Breaking the Silence: On Men, Masculinities and Managements; 2 - Masters and Men in the Transition from Factory Hands to Sentimental Workers; 3 - The Gender of Bureaucracy; 4 - Technocracy, Patriarchy and Management; 5 - 'The Best is Yet to Come?': The Quest for Embodiment in Managerial Work; 6 - Entrepreneurialism and Paternalism in Australian Management: A Gender Critique of the 'Self-Made' Man; 7 - Entrepreneurialism, Masculinitiesand the Self-Made Man; 8 - Quiet Whispers . . . Men Accounting for Women, West to East

9 - Multinational Masculinities and European Bureaucracies10 - Gendering and Evaluating Dynamics: Men, Masculinities, and Managements; 11 - ' Seduction and Succession': Circuits of Homosocial Desire in Management; 12 - Managing Universities: Is It Men's Work?; References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

As well as providing new insights into how managements and masculinities may reinforce each other, this challenging book ultimately



explores the ways in which both management and men might be changed, even transformed.