Transforming Managers: Engendering Change in the Public Sector

by Roy Moodley (Editor), Stephen Whitehead (Editor)

Overview

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 inevitably be central to the dynamics of organizational change. This book addresses theoretical ideas and mythologies in the examination of gendered organizations. The need to examine men in relation to family, law and society in general is growing, and this book extends this interrogation to work and organizational life. It will be of interest to students in management studies, public sector management and those involved in public policy making as well as students and academics within gender studies and sociology.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781857288766
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	04/01/1999
Series:	Gender, Change and Society
Pages:	256
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Stephen Whitehead Keele University, Roy Moodley Sheffield University

Table of Contents

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.

Editorial Reviews

'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.'

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