Alison Linstead
Biographic Data
| ID | 6589014 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alison Linstead |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alison |
| FAMILY NAME | Linstead |
| SIGNATURE | LINSTEAD A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Essex |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 24 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Gendering Teamwork
Recognizing the neglect of gender in the prescriptive and critical fields of teamwork, this article explores the gendered processes of teams. The argument presented in this article challenges masculinist discourse inherent in team theorizing and empirical research. This masculinism, we argue, stems from the so‐called gender‐neutral performance criteria and practices of team organization and management. Analysing The Wisdom of Teams ( Katzenbach a…
Losing the Plot? Middle Managers and Identity
There is now a large body of research attempting to `discover' the `answer' to the question `what is happening to middle management in contemporary organizations?', following unprecedented levels of delivering, downsizing and restructuring. Two contrasting views, positive and negative, on the state of middle management have been identified in the literature. Adopting a social constructionist framework, this paper argues that there is a need to mo…
Losing the Plot? Middle Managers and Identity
"What Do You Want from Me?" A Poststructuralist Feminist Reading of Middle Managers' Identities
This paper explores the processes of identity construction of four male and female middle managers within one restructured organization, Larts, to illustrate how these individuals draw on different gendered discourses to construct and legitimize their generic roles and identities as middle managers. Drawing on earlier research (Thomas and Linstead, 2002) that argued for a socially constructed view of identity to explore middle managers' identity …
Gendering Teamwork
Recognizing the neglect of gender in the prescriptive and critical fields of teamwork, this article explores the gendered processes of teams. The argument presented in this article challenges masculinist discourse inherent in team theorizing and empirical research. This masculinism, we argue, stems from the so‐called gender‐neutral performance criteria and practices of team organization and management. Analysing The Wisdom of Teams ( Katzenbach a…
"What Do You Want from Me?" A Poststructuralist Feminist Reading of Middle Managers' Identities
This paper explores the processes of identity construction of four male and female middle managers within one restructured organization, Larts, to illustrate how these individuals draw on different gendered discourses to construct and legitimize their generic roles and identities as middle managers. Drawing on earlier research (Thomas and Linstead, 2002) that argued for a socially constructed view of identity to explore middle managers' identity …
Losing the Plot? Middle Managers and Identity
There is now a large body of research attempting to `discover' the `answer' to the question `what is happening to middle management in contemporary organizations?', following unprecedented levels of delivering, downsizing and restructuring. Two contrasting views, positive and negative, on the state of middle management have been identified in the literature. Adopting a social constructionist framework, this paper argues that there is a need to mo…
Losing the Plot? Middle Managers and Identity
"What Do You Want from Me?" A Poststructuralist Feminist Reading of Middle Managers' Identities
This paper explores the processes of identity construction of four male and female middle managers within one restructured organization, Larts, to illustrate how these individuals draw on different gendered discourses to construct and legitimize their generic roles and identities as middle managers. Drawing on earlier research (Thomas and Linstead, 2002) that argued for a socially constructed view of identity to explore middle managers' identity …
Gendering Teamwork
Recognizing the neglect of gender in the prescriptive and critical fields of teamwork, this article explores the gendered processes of teams. The argument presented in this article challenges masculinist discourse inherent in team theorizing and empirical research. This masculinism, we argue, stems from the so‐called gender‐neutral performance criteria and practices of team organization and management. Analysing The Wisdom of Teams ( Katzenbach a…
Management and Organizational Studies (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Gender Diversity and Inequality (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Law (2 works) · Middle management (2 works) · Public relations (2 works) · Restructuring (2 works)