The Construction of Management: Competence and Gender Issues at Work [Hardcover]

Bronwen Ann Rees (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 1843762285 | ISBN-13: 978-1843762287 | Publication Date: January 2004

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.

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About the Author

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

Product Details

• Hardcover: 224 pages
• Publisher: Edward Elgar Pub (January 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1843762285
• ISBN-13: 978-1843762287
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.5 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #6,558,188 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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