Gender in Organizations

Given male privilege permeates all aspects of society, do recent accounts of a ‘crisis of masculinity’ really matter?

The assignment tests the following learning outcomes:

1   An understanding and analysis of gender as a conceptual category and its links with the conceptual category of ethnicity.
2   An understanding of how theorising on gender and organizations overlaps with or diverges from mainstream management theory.
3   An understanding and analysis of the approach taken to equality and the implementation of equal opportunities
4    Effective and critical written communication.

Key Readings
Simpson, R. and Lewis, P. (2008) Voice, Visibility and the Gendering of Organizations, Palgrave, Chapters 1, 5.
Burke, R.J. and Black, S. 1997 “Save the Males: Backlash in Organizations”,
Journal of Business Ethics, 16: pp. 933-942.
Robinson, S. 2000 “Introduction: Visibility, Crisis and the Wounded White
Male Body” in Marked Men: White Masculinity in Crisis”, New York:
Columbia University Press
Pierce, J.L. 2003: “Racing for Innocence: Whiteness, Corporate Culture and
the Backlash Against Affirmative Action”, Qualitative Sociology, 26 (1), pp.
53-70.
Simpson, R. and Lewis, P. 2005: ‘An investigation of silence and a scrutiny of transparency: Re-examining gender in organization literature through the Concepts of Voice and Visibility’, Human Relations, 58(10).
Puwar, N. 2004: ‘Thinking About Making a Difference’, British Journal of Politics an International Relations, 6(1), pp. 65-80
Whitehead, S. 2001: ‘The invisible gendered subject: men in education management’. Journal of Gender Studies, 10(1), 67-82.
Smithson, J. and Stokoe, E.H. 2005: ‘Discourses of work-life balance: Negotiating ‘genderblind’ terms in organizations’, Gender, Work and Organization, 12(2), pp. 147-168
Puwar, N. 2001: ‘The racialised somatic norm: institutional racism in the senior civil service’, Sociology, 35(3), pp. 651-670.