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The Construction of Management: Competence and Gender Issues at Work »

Authors: Bronwen Rees
ISBN-13: 9781843762287, ISBN-10: 1843762285
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Elgar, Edward Publishing, Inc.
Date Published: January 2004
Edition: (Non-applicable)

Author Biography: Bronwen Rees

Book Synopsis

Rees, a senior research fellow in the Ashcroft International Business School at Anglia Polytechnic University, UK, examines whether competence systems, developed in the workplace to provide objective measurement of management performance, contribute to, rather than improve, women's disadvantaged position in the workplace. Weaving together strands of critical theory, feminism, and post-modernism into a new conceptual framework, she provides innovative theoretical and methodological approaches as well as practical solutions to problems with competence systems. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

	Acknowledgements
	Foreword
	Introduction
1	Ways of thinking about women at work: building a theoretical perspective	1
2	A gendered sense of self	24
3	Interpreting organisational life	38
4	The birth of the competent manager	51
5	Competent organisations	68
6	Competence as discipline	92
7	Writing out gender	114
8	Competence: empowerment rather than control	126
9	Finding a way forward: competence as organisational learning	147
10	Embodying the subject: integrating separation and connection	164
	Afterword	175
App. 1	List of interviews, observations and questions	177
App. 2	Analytical tools for textual analysis	180
App. 3	List of articles used for analysis of competence discourse	185
	References	189
	Index	199