Women in Organisations

By - Ledwith Sue; Colgan Fiona/Editore/

Floor - Floor 1

Published - Macmillan Business, Basingstoke, Hampshire, England, 1996

ISBN 10 - 0333605055

ISBN 13 - 9780333605059

Book Status - 1 Qnty Available with us.

Subject - Businesswomen

Shelf No - 17

Call Number - 331.48 WOM

Physical Description - xviii, 341 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Book Information

One of the core books in the Management, Work and Organisations series, Women in Organisations examines the causes of gender-based inequality at work and provides a wide-ranging gender critique of liberal and radical approaches to organisational equality and of traditional organisational cultures and structures. The book focuses on women's agency as the missing ingredient of much organisational analysis; and women's consciousness of gender politics, and their own roles as change agents, is explored in the eight research-based case studies of women in organisations and industries presented in the text. These are book publishing, retailing, personnel management, the Customs and Excise Service, trade unions, school teaching, the National Health Service and public transport. The analysis indicates ways in which women acting collectively can play a central role in organisational change, or possibly, even transformation. Thus change and the opportunities and challenges it offers to women and men in work organisations, is revealed as a dynamic shaped both by organisational gender politics and external societal patriarchal structures - social, economic and political.

Open Book