Gender, Culture and Organizational Change

by Itzin, Catherine; Newman, Janet

• ISBN13: 9780415111874
• ISBN10: 0415111870
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1995-12-06
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This book is an original contribution to the increasing body of knowledge about gender and organizations. It investigates and theorizes gender and culture, and gender relations and gender-based inequality in organizations: how sexual and social relations between women and men, relations based on sexuality, and relations of power and control based on sex, determine the cultures, structures and practices of organizations and the experience of women and men in organizations. The book is unusual in its focus on organizational culture and organizational change (in putting theory into practice to bring about change in organizations and in using practice to inform and develop theory) and its concern with strategy (the use of theory to develop strategy to shape and direct practice, and in turn the use of practice to "craft strategy" and to construct theory). The book collects together a decade of experience of managing change and "operationalizing theory" in public sector organizations in Britain during a period ofmajor social, political and economic transitions, and analyzes what has been learned. It also makes wider connections with women and trade unions in Europe and management development for women in the "developing countries" of Africa and Asia.

Table of Contents

Gendering Organizational Culture

Gender and Cultural Change

The Gender Culture: Cowboys and Hobbled Horses

Why Move Over? Men and Locations of Power

A Gender Typology of Organizational Change

The Double Jeopardy of Age and Gender

The Silence and Din of Domination: The Gendered Culture of Organizations

Diversity and Change: Gender, Welfare and Organizational Relations

Strategies for Organizational Change

Crafting Strategy to Create Women Friendly Work

Working for Equality in the London Borough of Hounslow

Challenging Racism: the BBC Mentor Scheme

Women in Social Services: Accelerating the Process of Change

Leading in Their Own Ways: Women Chief Executives in Local Government

Redrawing the Boundaries: Trade Unions, Women and 'Europe'

The Gender Lens: Management Development for Women in 'Developing Countries'

Gender, Culture, Power and Change: A Materialist Analysis

Making Connections: Frameworks for Change

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