TY - BOOK AU - Maddock,Su TI - Challenging women: gender, culture, and organization SN - 9781849206747 AV - HQ1236 .M342 1999eb U1 - 658.406082 22 PY - 1999/// CY - London, Thousand Oaks, Calif. PB - Sage KW - Women KW - Political activity KW - Women in the civil service KW - Women public officers KW - Women executives KW - Organizational change KW - Sex role in the work environment KW - Organizational Innovation KW - Femmes KW - Activité politique KW - Femmes dans la fonction publique KW - Femmes fonctionnaires KW - Changement organisationnel KW - Rôle selon le sexe en milieu de travail KW - BUSINESS & ECONOMICS KW - Structural Adjustment KW - bisacsh KW - fast KW - Weibliche Führungskraft KW - gnd KW - Organisationswandel KW - Werkende vrouwen KW - gtt KW - Sekseverschillen KW - Organisatieverandering KW - Frau KW - idszbz KW - Electronic book KW - Electronic books N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 228-249) and index; Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 -- Management innovation; 2 -- Management style, gender and the professions; 3 -- Working at the paradigm shift; 4 -- Resistance to women; 5 -- Gender cultures, tactics and strategies; 6 -- Gender narratives; 7 -- British public sector reforms; 8 -- Innovative women are challenging women; 9 -- Barriers to transformation; 10 -- Transformation: a gendered process: post command, post market and post postmodern; Bibliography; Index; Electronic reproduction; [Place of publication not identified]; HathiTrust Digital Library; 2010 N2 - This book offers a radical reassessment of organizational forces for change and barriers encountered by the c̀hallenging women' - senior women managers faced with the task of transforming their organizations. Much has been written about women at work, the g̀lass ceiling' and discriminatory employment practices. This study is seminal in the linkage it makes between gender, innovation and organizational transformation. The book highlights the implications of this for all types of organizations and women managers everywhere UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=292328 ER -