ABSTRACT

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 analysis; and critical approaches to management. A range of essays by distinguished writers from countries including the UK, USA, Canada, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, the Netherlands and Sweden, explore innovative methods for the critical theorizing of organizational cultures.
In particular, the book reflects the growing interest in the impact of organizational identity formation and its implications for individuals and organizational outcomes in terms of gender. The book also introduces research designs, methods and methodologies by which can be used to explore the complex interrelationships between gender, identity and the culture of organizations.

part |2 pages

Part I Introduction

part |2 pages

Part II Theorizing organizational culture and gendered identities

chapter 3|18 pages

Alternative conceptualizations and theoretical perspectives on identities and organizational cultures

A personal review of research on men in organizations

chapter 4|15 pages

Otherness at large

Identity and difference in the new globalized organizational landscape

chapter 5|20 pages

Beyond body-counting

A discussion of the social construction of gender at work

chapter 6|21 pages

‘Managing’ diversity

Identity and power in organizations

part |2 pages

PART III Methods: beyond explorations

chapter 7|22 pages

History/herstory

An introduction to the problems of studying the gendering of organizational culture over time

chapter 8|23 pages

Investigating gender and organizational culture

Gendered value foundations that reproduce discrimination and inhibit organizational change

chapter 9|25 pages

Reporting gender

Representations of gender in financial and social annual reports

chapter 10|16 pages

Self in research

Hopelessly entangled in the gendered organizational culture

chapter 11|18 pages

Interviewing female managers

Presentations of the gendered selves in contexts