Feminization unveiled: Management qualities in contemporary writings

• 成果类型: Review
• 署名作者: Fondas, N
• 刊物名称: ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT REVIEW
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0363-7425
• DOI: 10.2307/259231
• 发表日期: 1997
• 页码: 257-282
• 关键词: MANAGERIAL WORK; ORGANIZATIONS; women; CRITIQUE; discourse; KNOWLEDGE

摘要

Qualities that are culturally associated with females are appearing in descriptions of managerial work in the texts of contemporary writers, and these texts function as carriers of a feminine ethos to practicing managers. The article describes a mechanism-management writings-used to disseminate and legitimate a management idea. It examines the nature of the rhetoric used in management writings and the implication of authors' failure to label the idea by its name: feminization. This ''feminization'' is discussed from both women's voice and poststructuralist perspectives. Implications for management theorizing and future research are described.