Reader in Gender, Work and Organization
1. Auflage Juli 2003
456 Seiten, Hardcover
Wiley & Sons Ltd
This reader uses an alternative approach to gender at work to
provoke new thinking about traditional management topics, such as
leadership and negotiation.
* Presents students with an alternative conceptual approach to
gender in the workplace.
* Connects gender with other dimensions of difference such as
race and class for a deeper understanding of diversity in
organizations.
* Illustrates how traditional images of competence and the ideal
worker result in narrow ways of thinking about work, limiting both
opportunity and organizational effectiveness.
* Provokes new ways of thinking about leadership, human resource
management, negotiation, globalization and organizational
change.
Part I: Introducing Gender.
Part II: Negotiation.
Part III: Leadership.
Part IV: Organizational Change and Intervention.
Part V: Human Resource Management.
Part VI: Diversity.
Part VII: Globalization.
Index.
most up to date compilation of research and theory which examines
the interplay among these key factors shaping our daily lives. The
structure of the book combines with the section overviews to
provide a theoretically and practically useful framework for
examining this vast literature and designing new research at the
frontier of this important topic. This should be in every serious
social scientist's personal library." David A Thomas, Harvard
Business School
"They have put together not only a very informative reader, but
also one that will provoke discussion and debate in the classroom.
I recommend it highly." Barbara A. Gutek, University of
Michigan
Behavior at the Harvard Business School and affiliated faculty
member at the Center for Gender in Organizations, Simmons School of
Management. She is author of numerous articles published in
scholarly and popular management journals and is a co-editor of
Mentoring Dilemmas: Developmental Relationships in Multicultural
Organizations (ed. with A. J. Murrell and F. J. Crosby, 1999).
Erica Gabrielle Foldy is a Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard
Business School, a Researcher at the Center for Gender in
Organizations, Simmons School of Management, and an Assistant
Professor at the Wagner School of Public Service at New York
University. Her work has been published in several journals and
edited volumes.
Maureen A. Scully is Professor of Management at the
Center for Gender in Organizations, Simmons School of Management.
She is author of numerous articles published in management journals
and is a co-author of Managing for the Future: Organizational
Behavior and Processes (with D. Ancona, T. Kochan, J. Van Maanen,
and E. Westney, second edition 1998). She is currently working on a
book, Luck, Pluck, or Merit? How Americans Make Sense of
Inequality.
