Sex, Strategy and the Stratosphere: Airlines and the Gendering of Organizational Culture - Hardcover

Mills, A.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1403998574 ISBN 13: 9781403998576

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006

Synopsis

This book provides an historical account of how discriminatory practices develop and change. The author presents a historical account of the discriminatory practices of airline companies British Airways, Air Canada and Pan American Airways. It covers the years 1919 to 1991 and is organized around key periods in the treatment of female employees.

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About the Author

ALBERT J. MILLS is Director of the Sobey PhD in Management at Saint Mary's University, Canada. His research focuses on the impact of organizational forms and theorization of human potentiality, with a particular interest in workplace discrimination. His work includes study of the new forms of industrial conflict in the UK, Worker Occupations and the North East Experiences (1976), the effect of organizational rules on workplace behaviour, Organizational Rules (1991), and gender discrimination at work, Gender and Organizational Analysis (1992), Managing the Organizational Melting Pot (1997), Gender, Identity and the Culture of Organizations (2002) and Identity Politics at Work (2004). His current research focuses on the impact of call centres on identity work in Canada and India.

About this edition

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1403998574
• ISBN 13: 9781403998576
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 328