This reader uses an alternative approach to gender at work to provoke new thinking about traditional management topics, such as leadership and negotiation. * Presents students with an alternative conceptual approach to gender in the workplace. * Connects gender with other dimensions of difference such as race and class for a deeper understanding of diversity in organizations. * Illustrates how traditional images of competence and the ideal worker result in narrow ways of thinking about work, limiting both opportunity and organizational effectiveness. * Provokes new ways of thinking about leadership, human resource management, negotiation, globalization and organizational change.

This reader uses an alternative approach to gender at work to provoke new thinking about traditional management topics, such as leadership and negotiation.
Presents students with an alternative conceptual approach to gender in the workplace.Connects gender with other dimensions of difference such as race and class for a deeper understanding of diversity in organizations.Illustrates how traditional images of competence and the ideal worker result in narrow ways of thinking about work, limiting both opportunity and organizational effectiveness.Provokes new ways of thinking about leadership, human resource management, negotiation, globalization and organizational change.