Abstract
Gender concerns have been almost totally ignored within organizational analysis. This paper attempts to redress that ignorance. It has four related tasks: (1) to illustrate examples of gender-blind approaches to the study of organizations; (2), by way of a selective review of the organizations and culture debate, to argue for the utility of an organizational culture focus for an understanding of gender; (3), to root an organizational culture focus, along with gender concerns, within a feminist materialist method of analysis; (4), to explore, by way of a strategic application of Clegg's (1981) 'rule' focus, the potential of a feminist materialist analysis for understanding the relationship between gender and organizational culture.
Keywords
Organizational cultureMaterialismRedressIgnoranceSociologyFocus (optics)EpistemologyGender studiesPublic relationsPolitical scienceLaw
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- 1988
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- article
- Volume
- 9
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 351-369
- Citations
- 221
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Albert J. Mills
(1988).
Organization, Gender and Culture.
Organization Studies
, 9
(3)
, 351-369.
https://doi.org/10.1177/017084068800900304
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- 10.1177/017084068800900304