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Authors: Sue Maddock
ISBN-13: 9780761951506, ISBN-10: 0761951504
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date Published: September 1999
Edition: (Non-applicable)

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Author Biography: Sue Maddock

Book Synopsis

This book offers a radical reassessment of organizational forces for change and barriers encountered by the 'challenging women' - senior women managers faced with the task of transforming their organizations. Much has been written about women at work, the 'glass 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.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Management Innovation
Management Style, Gender and the Professions
Working at the Paradigm Shift: Personal Agency, Having a Mind for a Change
Resistance to Women
Gender Cultures, Tactics and Strategies
Gender Narratives
British Public Sector Reforms
Innovative Women are Challenging Women
Barriers to Transformation
Transformation: A Gendered Process, Post-Command, Post-Market and Post Post-Postmodern

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