1st Edition
Transforming Managers Engendering Change in the Public Sector
256 Pages
by
Routledge
254 Pages
by
Routledge
256 Pages
by
Routledge
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In the 1990s, considerable changes in the political and social world have impacted on the character of both public and private organizations. At a time of increased uncertainty and insecurity in these organizations, new ways of managing and being managed have emerged. Recognising that organizational life is part reflective and determined by dominant social discourses, factors of gender will... Read more
Part 1: Women in the management arena; women managers in higher education; giving the right message - why women tend not to apply for senior positions; how does it feel? - women managers, embodiment and changing public sector cultures. Part 2: Unmasking men and management; men as a management problem; power and resistance in the academy - the case of women academic managers; engendering labour - women cleaning up the house?; men, managers and management - the case of higher education; shifting masculinities - gender and restructuring in a local authority; making sense of men's experiences in public sector organizatons; masculinity, new managerial discourses and the problematics of intimacy in organizations.
Biography
Stephen Whitehead Keele University, Roy Moodley Sheffield University
'This is an important contribution to the emerging interest in ... the promotion of NPM and advocacy of gender equity. The volume offers 'value for money' ... concerned intellectuals will undoubtedly find this crtical-analytic and cross-gender contribution a very refreshing one to read.'
