Men as Managers, Managers as Men

Critical Perspectives on Men, Masculinities and Managements

David Collinson, Jeff Hearn, David Collinson, Jeff Hearn

• Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
• Year: 1996
• Print ISBN: 9780803989290
• eBook ISBN: 9781849208277
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Business
• Subtopic: Management
• Index: Business

Most managers in most organizations in most countries are men. This book is the first international work to address the relationships between men, masculinities and managements. It examines the processes through which gendered managerial structures, cultures and practices are reproduced. Exploring top and middle managers, entrepreneurs, corporate executives, and public and private sector managers, the book breaks new ground by critically examining the gendered power processes that have largely been assumed and ignored by conventional organizational and management theory.

As well as providing new insights into how managements and masculinities may reinforce each other, this challenging book ultimately explores the ways in which both management and men might be changed, even transformed.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Contents
• Preface
• The Contributors
• 1 - Breaking the Silence: On Men, Masculinities and Managements
• 2 - Masters and Men in the Transition from Factory Hands to Sentimental Workers
• 3 - The Gender of Bureaucracy
• 4 - Technocracy, Patriarchy and Management
• 5 - 'The Best is Yet to Come?': The Quest for Embodiment in Managerial Work
• 6 - Entrepreneurialism and Paternalism in Australian Management: A Gender Critique of the 'Self-Made' Man
• 7 - Entrepreneurialism, Masculinitiesand the Self-Made Man
• 8 - Quiet Whispers . . . Men Accounting for Women, West to East
• 9 - Multinational Masculinities and European Bureaucracies
• 10 - Gendering and Evaluating Dynamics: Men, Masculinities, and Managements
• 11 - ' Seduction and Succession': Circuits of Homosocial Desire in Management
• 12 - Managing Universities: Is It Men's Work?
• References
• Index