ISBN:
0415258197
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xv, 224 p)
,
24 cm
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
Routledge advances in management and business studies
Parallel Title:
Print version Gender and the Public Sector
DDC:
306.2
Keywords:
Women government executives
;
Public welfare administration
;
Public welfare administration
;
Women government executives
;
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Abstract:
Drawing on sociology and social policy, this intriguing volume considers various aspects of gender and professional identity. Contributors explore the inter-relationship between managerialism, professionalism and gender identity in Britain, and examine the processes and impacts of change on those working in public sector organizations in other countries as they come under varying managerial pressures. The subject is viewed from a variety of perspectives, including feminism and post-modernism.With an international range of contributors, this important book brings together an array of
Description / Table of Contents:
Book Cover; Title; Contents; Notes on contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Contexts and networks; Managing professional work; Identity and biography; Contexts and networks; New Labour, governance and the politics of diversity; Gendered states, critical engagements; Managing transformation? Health and welfare management in South Africa; Gender, welfare regimes and the medical profession in France and Greece: Clientelism, etatism and the 'Mediterranean rim'; Managing professional work; Identifying the professional 'man'ager: Masculinity, professionalism and the search for legitimacy
Description / Table of Contents:
Women's positioning in a bureaucratic environment: Combining employment and motheringPlural frames of work in public sector organisations; On the front line: Women's experiences of managing the new public services; Hard nosed or pink and fluffy? An examination of how middle managers in health care use the competing metaphors of business and care to achieve desired outcomes; Ministering angels and the virtuous profession: Service and professional indemnity; Identity and biography; Gendered narratives of the management of residential care homes; Index
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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