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Masculinity and the British Organization Man since 1945 (Hardcover)
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Masculinity and the British Organization Man since 1945 (Hardcover)
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The post-war period is often regarded as a time when Britain
underwent its managerial revolution, the family firm and the
"gentleman amateur" giving way to the large bureaucracy and the
trained management expert. Yet the conception of modern management
as an objective process could hardly be further from the truth.
Drawing on detailed life-history interviews with the post-war
generation of "organization men", this study explores the
intimacies that operate among men in management. It argues that
despite the rise of professional management, relations between
managers continue to function in highly subjective ways. The
pleasure of technical innovation or of seeing a new product through
to the market, the mixture of rivalry and patronage that surrounds
management succession, the hard bargaining of industrial relations:
at every level, managerial functions involve the dramatization of
emotions among men. By challenging the enduring myth of the
rational organization man, this book sheds new light on gender
segregation in management. It argues that the exclusion of women
from senior positions cannot be understood simply as the outcome of
unprofessional practices. A focus on the emotional relations
between male managers reveals the psychic dimensions of
exclusionary behaviour. An "emotional economy" flourishes among men
in management, but its workings have been hidden by the myth of the
rational organization man.
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