Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 -- Management innovation; 2 -- Management style, gender and the professions; 3 -- Working at the paradigm shift; 4 -- Resistance to women; 5 -- Gender cultures, tactics and strategies; 6 -- Gender narratives; 7 -- British public sector reforms; 8 -- Innovative women are challenging women; 9 -- Barriers to transformation; 10 -- Transformation: a gendered process: post command, post market and post postmodern; Bibliography; Index
Summary
This book offers a radical reassessment of organizational forces for change and barriers encountered by the c̀hallenging women' - senior women managers faced with the task of transforming their organizations. Much has been written about women at work, the g̀lass ceiling' and discriminatory employment practices. This study is seminal in the linkage it makes between gender, innovation and organizational transformation. The book highlights the implications of this for all types of organizations and women managers everywhere
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 228-249) and index
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