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Record Nr.

UNINA9910819024103321

Autore

Maddock Su

Titolo

Challenging women : gender, culture, and organization / / Su Maddock

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; Thousand Oaks, CA, : Sage, 1999

ISBN

0-7619-5150-4

1-282-26216-5

9786612262166

1-84920-674-0

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (258 p.)

Disciplina

658.406082

Soggetti

Women - Political activity

Women in the civil service

Women public officers

Women executives

Organizational change

Sex role in the work environment

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. [228]-249) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 - Management innovation; 2 - Management style, gender and the professions; 3 - Working at the paradigm shift; 4 - Resistance to women; 5 - Gender cultures, tactics and strategies; 6 - Gender narratives; 7 - British public sector reforms; 8 - Innovative women are challenging women; 9 - Barriers to transformation; 10 - Transformation: a gendered process: post command, post market and post postmodern; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Challenging Women offers a radical reassessment of organisational forces for change, and the barriers encountered by the 'challenging women' (senior women managers faced with the task of transforming their organisations).