The Construction of Management (Hardcover)

Brownen Ann Rees

ISBN 10: 1843762285 / ISBN 13: 9781843762287

Published by Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, Cheltenham, 2003

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Hardcover. Despite continuing equal opportunity approaches, women are still significantly under-represented at senior management levels and earn less than male colleagues. The author questions whether competence systems - developed and implemented in the workplace to provide objective measurement of management performance - contribute to, rather than improve, women's disadvantaged position in the workplace. Drawing together the threads of critical theory, feminism and post-modernism into a new conceptual framework, this work provides a departure from existing methods of analysis and points a new and challenging way forward for future researchers in management. The book provides innovative theoretical and methdological approaches as well as practical solutions. In this way, the book should appeal to scholars of business and management, industrial relations and gender studies as well as business managers and consultants. Despite continuing equal opportunity approaches, women are still significantly under-represented at senior management levels and earn less than male colleagues. In this way, the book will appeal to scholars of business and management, industrial relations and gender studies as well as business managers and consultants. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Construction of Management (Hardcover)
• Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, Cheltenham
• Publication Date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1843762285
• ISBN 13: 9781843762287
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: new

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Synopsis

Despite continuing equal opportunity approaches, women are still significantly under-represented at senior management levels and earn less than male colleagues. The author questions whether competence systems - developed and implemented in the workplace to provide objective measurement of management performance - contribute to, rather than improve, women's disadvantaged position in the workplace.

Drawing together the threads of critical theory, feminism and post-modernism into a new conceptual framework, the book provides an exciting departure from existing methods of analysis and points a new and challenging way forward for future researchers in management.

The Construction of Management is a rich and lively work, providing innovative theoretical and methodological approaches as well as practical solutions. In this way, the book will appeal to scholars of business and management, industrial relations and gender studies as well as business managers and consultants.

About the Author

Bronwen Ann Rees, Senior Research Fellow, Ashcroft International Business School, Anglia Ruskin University, UK