Leadership, Gender and Ethics: Embodied Reason in Challenging Masculinities (Routledge Studies in Leadership Research)

Business & Money

Knights, David

Business Culture

Routledge

Despite the introduction of anti-discrimination legislation and significant changes in the nature of gender relations throughout the 20th century, men and women continue to be segregated into different kinds of jobs within the UK labour market. This book provides a theoretical and empirical analysis of the ways in which sex discrimination can be reproduced within the recruitment process. It also examines the rationalization provided by those who perpetrate these unlawful practices and some of the forms of resistance which can be mobilized in order to challenge and even eliminate sex discrimination. "Managing to discriminate" is a theoretical development of a research project sponsored by the Equal Opportunities Commission designed to examine whether, and if so how, the recruitment process can contribute to the continuation of gender divisions and inequalities in employment. The EOC was acutely aware of the absence of evidence concerning the specific methods and procedures or organizational recruitment and of the particular ways in which sex discrimination could characterize this process. The recruitment process is especially vague, nebulous, and indeterminate and can be shrouded in secrecy. Equally, since sex discrimination is illegal, its observation can be very difficult. By examining particular recruitment exercises as they actually happened, and at every stage of their process, this book presents rich, detailed qualitative material that makes it a landmark in the research of the recruitment process and sex discrimination in employment.

Managing To Discriminate

Collinson, Margaret

Collinson, David L.

Identifies and analyzes the social, political and problematic nature of systems and the use of IT in contemporary society. Considers the growing complexity of IT management issues, the changing profiles and organization of the IS profession and the dominant rise of a user relations problem within modern systems development. Features a detailed, case study of a major systems project--from the early decisions involving desirability and design to launch and initial assessment. Analyzes the shift from a technological-led to a strategic and marketing-led use of IT.

Managers Divided: Organisation Politics and Information Technology Management

Murray, Fergus

Management & Leadership

wiley

Managing the Labour Process

Gower Pub.Co.

Management, Organization and Masculinity

Management, Organization and Masculinity provides a thorough understanding of the influence of gender in the workplace.  Deborah Kerfoot and David Knights consider the interconnections between masculinity, management, organization and work. They show how contemporary management and organizational practices still exhibit forms of behaviour that may be characterised as masculine; bring together literature from feminist discourse and organizational and management studies; and explore concepts and ideas which may account for both the management of individual masculinities at a personal level and the reproduction of masculinities at organizational level.

Kerfoot, Deborah

Sage Publications Ltd.

Management Lives: Power and Identity in Work Organizations

Based on courses taught by the authors over many years, this innovative text is a lively and accessible analysis of people at work and the problems they have to confront. The student is introduced to a range of key themes in management such as: power and identity; consumption and bureaucracy; rational choice and meaning all through the medium of characters and situations in contemporary literature. The clear theoretical framework, supported by footnotes, summaries and further reading guides, makes this an introduction to management the student will find useful as well as enjoyable.

Willmott, Hugh

"This book has a clear concern to offer a distinctive way of studying leadership so that it might be practiced differently. It is distinctive in focusing on contemporary concerns about gender and ethics. More precisely, it examines the masculinity of leadership and how through an embodied form of reasoning, it might be challenged or disrupted. A central argument of the book is that masculine leadership elevates rationality in ways that marginalise the body and feelings and often has the effect of sanctioning unethical behaviour. In exploring this thesis, Leadership, Gender and Ethics: Embodied Reason in Challenging Masculinities provides an analysis of the comparatively neglected issues of identity/anxiety, power/resistance, diversity/gender, and the body/ masculinities surrounding the concept and practice of leadership. It also illustrates the arguments of the book by examining leadership through an empirical examination of academic life, organization change and innovation, and the global financial crisis of 2008. In a postscript, it analyses some examples of masculine leadership in the global pandemic of 2020. This book will be of interest generally to researchers, academics and students in the field of leadership and management and will be of special interest to those who seek to understand the intersections between leadership and gender, ethics and embodied approaches. It will also appeal to those who seek to develop new ways of thinking and theorizing about leadership in terms of identities and insecurities, power and masculinity, ethics and the body. Its insights might not only change studies but also practices of leadership"--

Leadership, Gender and Ethics (Routledge Studies in Leadership Research)

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KELPER 186F: Save the environment before it's too late

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