Challenging Women or Economic Literacy

Challenging Women: Gender, Culture and Organization

Author: Sue Maddock

The influence of male gender cultures on men, women, and institutions is tacitly accepted, but its effect on women in senior management positions and their creativity is little acknowledged. In a climate of corporate change in which traditional institutions, hierarchies, and working practices face pressure to adapt, the role of the innovator and the new manger from outside established hierarchies can become an important catalyst. Based on research into the public sector, Challenging Women offers a radical reassessment of organizational forces for change, the barriers encountered, and the role of "challenging women": senior women managers who are faced with the task of transforming their organizations. The implications of the study go far beyond the public sector to embrace the experience of women managers in organizations everywhere. Much has been written about women at work, the "glass ceiling", and discriminatory employment practices. This study is seminal in the linkage it makes between gender, innovation, and organizational transformation. Challenging Women provides new evidence for understanding and analyzing organizational change in the context of the gender culture at work. Policymakers, as well as students of organizational behavior and management, public sector reform, and gender studies, will find this essential reading.

Table of Contents:

	Introduction
	Management Innovation
	Management Style, Gender and the Professions
	Working at the Paradigm Shift: Personal Agency, Having a Mind for a Change
	Resistance to Women
	Gender Cultures, Tactics and Strategies
	Gender Narratives
	British Public Sector Reforms
	Innovative Women are Challenging Women
	Barriers to Transformation
	Transformation: A Gendered Process, Post-Command, Post-Market and Post Post-Postmodern

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Economic Literacy

Author: Frederick Stirton Weaver

With wit and verve, this book explains the logic, language, and worldview of economic theory and engagingly describes the organization and performance of the U.S. economy. Its combination of theory and description is essential for understanding debates about current affairs, penetrating the literature of economics, and reflecting on the usefulness and limits of economic analysis.

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An introduction to the basic concepts of economic theory that aims to provide enough understanding for lay readers to decipher current events and to decode some professional economics literature. Chapters cover demand and supply; the theory of the firm, market structures, and the distribution of income; definitions and analyses in macroeconomics; fiscal policy, monetary policy, recession, and inflation; international economics and comparative advantage; and the international financial institutions. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)