1st Edition

Gender, Identity and the Culture of Organizations

Edited By Iiris Aaltio, Albert J. Mills Copyright 2002
240 Pages
by Routledge

240 Pages
by Routledge

240 Pages
by Routledge

Gender, Identity and the Culture of Organizations considers how organizations operate as spaces in which minds are gendered and men and women constructed. This edited collection brings together four powerful themes that have developed within the field of organizational analysis over the past two decades: organizational culture; the gendering of organizations; post-modernism and organizational... Read more
Part I Introduction 1. Organizational culture and gendered identities in context Part II Theorizing organizational culture and gendered identities 2. En-gendering differences, transgressing the boundaries, coping with dual presence 3. Alternative conceptualizations and theoretical perspectives on identities and organizational cultures: a personal review of research on men in organizations 4. Otherness at large: identity and difference in the new globalized organizational landscape 5. Beyond body-counting: a discussion of the social construction of gender at work 6. 'Managing' diversity: identity and power in organizations Part III Methods: beyond explorations 7. History/herstory: an introduction to the problems of studying the gendering of organizational culture over time 8. Investigating gender and organizational culture: gendered value foundations that reproduce discrimination and inhibit organizational change 9. Reporting gender: representations of gender in financial and social annual reports 10. Self in research: hopelessly entangled in the gendered organizational culture 11. Interviewing female managers: the presenting of gendered selves in context

Biography

Aaltio, Iiris; Mills, Albert J.