Organizations, Jobs and Gender

Joan Acker's Theory in Practice
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-95813-2
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 122 Seiten, Format (B × H): 138 mm x 216 mm

Reihe: Routledge Focus on Women Writers in Organization Studies

Organizations, Jobs and Gender: Joan Acker’s Theory in Practice provides a full application of Joan Acker’s five gendering processes through an in-depth case study of an Australian trade union. It demonstrates how gendered divisions, cultural images, everyday interactions, and identity work are organized and sustained through a logic of doing duty and being responsible. Drawing on life history interviews and participant observation, the book provides practical guidance on how to operationalize Acker’s framework in research, offering clear templates, methodological insights, and strategies for tracing subtle and often taken-for-granted inequalities. Written for scholars, graduate students, and researchers in sociology, gender studies, organization studies, and industrial relations, as well as union practitioners and activists, this book delivers an integrated roadmap for analyzing gender in organizations. Readers will gain the tools to see what is often hidden and to adapt Acker’s framework to complex empirical settings. By preserving and extending Acker’s legacy, the book advances methodological clarity and provides a foundation for future studies to uncover, challenge, and transform gendering in organizational life.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bates, Trudy

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Management Unternehmensorganisation & Entwicklungsstrategien
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Organisationstheorie, Organisationssoziologie, Organisationspsychologie
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Betriebswirtschaft: Theorie & Allgemeines
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Bereichsspezifisches Management Management: Führung & Motivation
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Joan Acker’s legacy and theory of gendered organizations 2. Applying Joan Acker’s five-dimensional framework in case study research 3. Gendering practices/structures 4. Gendering cultures 5. Gendering interactions 6. Constructing gendered identities 7. Discussion and conclusion

Über Autor(innen)

Trudy Bates is a Lecturer in Management at Edith Cowan University, School of Business and Law, Australia.