Women/Men/Management / Edition 2

by Bloomsbury Academic

Overview

This book looks at the real and perceived differences between women and men in organizations. Unlike most books on organizations, it attempts to integrate the theories of feminism and organizational behavior. In so doing it demonstrates why the issues of sex and gender are central to understanding organizational behavior. It finds that despite advances made in recent years, women and men still work in sex-segregated occupations. Women workers on the average earn lower pay than men and have fewer opportunities to acquire power and status. Men workers, on the other hand, receive less support than women in their efforts to balance work and family conflicts. Efforts to help women to adapt to a work environment dominated by masculine values have proved less than successful because they fail to address the broader issues. Organizations that hope to maximize their use of all employees must bring about cultural change through a broad, top down approach.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780275946852
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	04/22/1996
Series:	Text
Edition description:	2nd ed.
Pages:	272
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.57(d)
Lexile:	1310L (what's this?)

About the Author

ANN HARRIMAN is Professor Emeritus of Human Resources Management at California State University, Sacramento, and serves as affirmative action officer of the CSUS Foundation, an auxiliary organization to the University. She has written extensively in the area of gender and organizational behavior and is the author of The Work/Leisure Trade-Off (Praeger, 1982) and the first edition of Women/Men/Management (Praeger, 1985).

Table of Contents

Point of Departure
The Socio-Technical Environment
The Economic Environment
The Political Environment
About Roles and Stereotypes
Working Together
Communication
Motivation and Rewards
Leadership and Power
Performance and Perceptions of Performance
Career Choices and Career Development
Change: A Look at the Future
References
Author Index
Subject Index

Editorial Reviews

Examines issues of sex and gender as organizational variables, describing the masculine model and the gender model of work and their implications for explaining men's and women's organizational behavior. Looks at the evolution of modern organizational practice to see how traditional assumptions came to exist; at working relationships, opportunities, expectations, and outcomes in contemporary practice; and at strategies for adapting to contemporary social, technological, and political realities. MARC cited an erroneous ISBN (0-0275-9468-4). Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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