Beverly Dawn Metcalfe
Biographic Data
| ID | 3472368 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Beverly Dawn Metcalfe |
| GIVEN NAMES | Beverly Dawn |
| FAMILY NAME | Metcalfe |
| SIGNATURE | METCALFE B D |
| AFFILIATIONS | École Supérieure des Affaires |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7605-875X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 108 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 19 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Microaggressions as a Framework for Understanding Women’s STEM Career Experiences in Lebanon
Women, Entrepreneurship, and Development in the Middle East
Black lives and bodywork matters: A postcolonial critique of gender and embodiment in Nigeria
Drawing on the theories of “Womanism” and “African feminism,” this paper explores the concept of embodiment within an African context. More specifically, we focus on exploring the lived experiences of Nigerian women in male‐dominated organizations (sector) to provide an in‐depth understanding of the dynamics of how the Nigerian society marginalizes qualities and aspects of embodiment and disembodiment of women. Based on 39 interviews, our finding…
Gender, bodies and identities in organization: Postcolonial critiques
Critical perspectives on embodiment in organizations acknowledges that the body is a site, object and subject of the labor force, crossing and spanning the material, social, cultural, and natural world (Dale, 2005; Monaghan, 2002; Williams & Bendelow, 1998). Binary distinctions between body and mind are challenged (Pullen & Knights, 2007), placing the lived experience as locus of analysis (Kringen & Novich, 2018; Williams & Bendelow, 1998). Impor…
Writing materiality into management and organization studies through and with Luce Irigaray
There is increasing recognition in management and organization studies of the importance of materiality as an aspect of discourse, while the neglect of materiality in post-structuralist management and organization theory is currently the subject of much discussion. This article argues that this turn to materiality may further embed gender discrimination. We draw on Luce Irigaray's work to highlight the dangers inherent in masculine discourses of …
Leadership Development in the Middle East
Contents: 1. Leadership, Social Development and Political Economy in the Middle East: An Introduction Beverly Dawn Metcalfe and Tony Murfin 2. Globalization, Governance and Leadership Development in the Middle East Rodney Wilson 3. Leadership and Islam Abbas J. Ali 4. Leadership in UAE Abubakr M. Suliman and Rehana Hayat 5. Leadership and Organizational Change in the Middle East Christopher J. Rees, Rashid Althakhri and Aminu Mamman 6. Leadership…
Redefining the way we look at diversity: A review of recent diversity and inclusion findings in organizational research
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to summarize the findings of studies presented at the 24th annual conference of the Society of Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP) in relation to how diversity is studied, microaggressions, when diversity is perceived, and employment outcomes for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered (LGBT) job applicants. Design/methodology/approach A select group of presentations are summarized based on observ…
The construction of gender identities in public sector organisations in Latin America: A view of the Dominican Republic
Purpose Literature on “gender and organisation” in developing countries is scarce. The purpose of this paper is to unveil the way in which gender construction is understood and operates within public organisational settings in the Dominican Republic. Design/methodology/approach Semi‐structured interviews were conducted with 27 women and 13 men from three organisations in the public sector in the Dominican Republic. The research was developed usin…
Becoming an international man: Top manager masculinities in the making of a multinational corporation
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to address gender and management in contemporary globalization by focusing on the ways in which male top managers in a multinational corporation (MNC) construct their identities in interviews with researchers. Design/methodology/approach Qualitative analysis based on interviews with virtually all top managers in the Nordic financial services company Nordea (53 men and two women). Findings It is found that beco…
Dialogue on gender and race equality: Conversations between Sweden and South Africa
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide insights into certain themes and discourses that have emerged from two research projects on gender and racial equality in higher education in Sweden and South Africa
Islamic sisters: Spirituality and ethnic entrepreneurship in Sweden
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to present a case study of ethnic minority entrepreneurship in Sweden offered through the sacred‐secular lens of the Islamic Dawoodi Bohra community, with the purpose of exploring the relationship of spirituality to entrepreneurship. Design/methodology/approach Through a case study, this paper spotlights the entrepreneurship of immigrant women from the Dawoodi Bohra Islamic community in Sweden. Utilizing the l…
Gender, development, and sex work in Lesotho
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the intersections of gender, development and globalization through an investigation of the ways in which a large‐scale, internationally financed multi‐dam development project, the Lesotho Highlands Water Project (LHWP), impacts gender relations through its physical presence in the highlands of Lesotho, Southern Africa. Design/methodology/approach Field research including interviews with men and wome…
Gender, globalization and organization: Exploring power, relations and intersections
Purpose Current debates on neo‐liberal and universalistic globalization pay little attention to gender or to other marginalized groups, and fail to consider the complexity and diversity of the experiences of men and women in specific socio‐political contexts, especially those in the developing world. The paper challenges mainstream theories which present globalization and its associated forces as gender neutral. The main purpose of this paper is …
Equality and diversity rhetoric: One size fits all? Globalization and the Portuguese context
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to assess the extent to which Portuguese companies have incorporated equality‐ and diversity‐related issues into their management discourse, and examine the prevalent rhetoric on these matters. Design/methodology/approach A comprehensive content analysis of the web sites of the 500 largest companies plus the 20 best companies to work for in Portugal, in 2005, according to the ranking of The Great Place to Work…
Women, Management and Globalization in the Middle East
Critical perspectives in diversity and equality management
Purpose - This paper aims to draw conceptual links between the papers in this special issue, arguing that diversity and equality research is located within varying socio-political, socio-demographic and geo-political contexts and should therefore be seen as fluid and subject to ongoing reformation. Design/methodology/approach - This paper provides a thematic and analytical review of six papers from the Gender, Diversity and Management track of th…
Feminist Communication Theory: Selections in Context
Feminist Communication Theory: An Introduction Part 1: Difference Difference in Feminist Communication Theory Who is Your Mother? Red Roots of White Feminism - Paula Gunn Allen Necessity of Differences: Constructing a Positive Category of Women - Marilyn Frye Reconciling Equality to Difference: Caring (F)or Justice for People with Disabilities - Anita Silvers Becoming Post Colonial: African Women Changing the Meaning of Citizenship - Patricia McF…
The woman question? Gender and management in the Russian Federation
Purpose The aim of this paper will be to examine the social and economic changes that have shaped women's work identity in the USSR and Russian Federation. Based on interview research with 30 female professionals in St Petersburg, Russia, we unravel the complexities of the “woman question” in soviet discourse and explore the individual subjectivities of managing gender and managing transition. Design/methodology/approach The paper adopts a life‐h…
East German women in management
Purpose To address the research gap on East German women managers and to examine some of the experiences of post‐socialist East German women who entered management positions during 1990s. The discussion focuses on the nature of women's commitment to career and organisation. Design/methodology/approach The study presented adopts a methodology based on a qualitative approach, the grounded theory approach as developed by Glaser. One‐to‐one, semi‐str…
Development of Culture, Welfare States and Women's Employment in Europe
Introducing gender, management and transition research
Gendered management in Hungary: Perceptions and explanations
Purpose To display both the statistical data and the subjective evaluation on the situation of women in management in Hungary. Design/methodology/approach In the last ten years research activity on gender and work countries have concentrated on the investigation of the sociological issue of the extent to which equal opportunity programmes at the company level have been accomplished in Hungary. The investigations consist of two interrelated parts:…
Developments in gender and management research in Central and Eastern European Europe (CEE)
The emerging identity of women managers in post‐Soviet Belarus
Purpose The paper critically reviews women managers' experiences of managing transition in post‐Soviet Belarus. The main aim of the paper is to explore the emerging learning experiences and learning practices of women managers in Belarus who are working in small and medium‐size business enterprises. Design/methodology/approach The paper commences with an exploration of the country context. It then seeks to draw attention to ongoing economic, poli…
Gender, work, and equal opportunities in central and eastern Europe
Purpose This paper examines gender, work and equal opportunities in central and eastern Europe (CEE) countries. The worker‐mother contract in socialist systems is discussed and reveals how transition from a communist economic system to a market economy has eroded women's equality within the workplace claimed with the Communist and economic social legacy. The aim is to explore the opportunities and constraints on women's professional career advanc…
Writing materiality into management and organization studies through and with Luce Irigaray
There is increasing recognition in management and organization studies of the importance of materiality as an aspect of discourse, while the neglect of materiality in post-structuralist management and organization theory is currently the subject of much discussion. This article argues that this turn to materiality may further embed gender discrimination. We draw on Luce Irigaray's work to highlight the dangers inherent in masculine discourses of …
Gendering Teamwork: Re‐Writing the Feminine
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…
Gender, globalization and organization: Exploring power, relations and intersections
Purpose Current debates on neo‐liberal and universalistic globalization pay little attention to gender or to other marginalized groups, and fail to consider the complexity and diversity of the experiences of men and women in specific socio‐political contexts, especially those in the developing world. The paper challenges mainstream theories which present globalization and its associated forces as gender neutral. The main purpose of this paper is …
Black lives and bodywork matters: A postcolonial critique of gender and embodiment in Nigeria
Drawing on the theories of “Womanism” and “African feminism,” this paper explores the concept of embodiment within an African context. More specifically, we focus on exploring the lived experiences of Nigerian women in male‐dominated organizations (sector) to provide an in‐depth understanding of the dynamics of how the Nigerian society marginalizes qualities and aspects of embodiment and disembodiment of women. Based on 39 interviews, our finding…
The construction of gender identities in public sector organisations in Latin America: A view of the Dominican Republic
Purpose Literature on “gender and organisation” in developing countries is scarce. The purpose of this paper is to unveil the way in which gender construction is understood and operates within public organisational settings in the Dominican Republic. Design/methodology/approach Semi‐structured interviews were conducted with 27 women and 13 men from three organisations in the public sector in the Dominican Republic. The research was developed usin…
Gender, bodies and identities in organization: Postcolonial critiques
Critical perspectives on embodiment in organizations acknowledges that the body is a site, object and subject of the labor force, crossing and spanning the material, social, cultural, and natural world (Dale, 2005; Monaghan, 2002; Williams & Bendelow, 1998). Binary distinctions between body and mind are challenged (Pullen & Knights, 2007), placing the lived experience as locus of analysis (Kringen & Novich, 2018; Williams & Bendelow, 1998). Impor…
Becoming an international man: Top manager masculinities in the making of a multinational corporation
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to address gender and management in contemporary globalization by focusing on the ways in which male top managers in a multinational corporation (MNC) construct their identities in interviews with researchers. Design/methodology/approach Qualitative analysis based on interviews with virtually all top managers in the Nordic financial services company Nordea (53 men and two women). Findings It is found that beco…
Critical perspectives in diversity and equality management
Purpose - This paper aims to draw conceptual links between the papers in this special issue, arguing that diversity and equality research is located within varying socio-political, socio-demographic and geo-political contexts and should therefore be seen as fluid and subject to ongoing reformation. Design/methodology/approach - This paper provides a thematic and analytical review of six papers from the Gender, Diversity and Management track of th…
Gender, development, and sex work in Lesotho
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the intersections of gender, development and globalization through an investigation of the ways in which a large‐scale, internationally financed multi‐dam development project, the Lesotho Highlands Water Project (LHWP), impacts gender relations through its physical presence in the highlands of Lesotho, Southern Africa. Design/methodology/approach Field research including interviews with men and wome…
Equality and diversity rhetoric: One size fits all? Globalization and the Portuguese context
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to assess the extent to which Portuguese companies have incorporated equality‐ and diversity‐related issues into their management discourse, and examine the prevalent rhetoric on these matters. Design/methodology/approach A comprehensive content analysis of the web sites of the 500 largest companies plus the 20 best companies to work for in Portugal, in 2005, according to the ranking of The Great Place to Work…
Dialogue on gender and race equality: Conversations between Sweden and South Africa
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide insights into certain themes and discourses that have emerged from two research projects on gender and racial equality in higher education in Sweden and South Africa
Islamic sisters: Spirituality and ethnic entrepreneurship in Sweden
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to present a case study of ethnic minority entrepreneurship in Sweden offered through the sacred‐secular lens of the Islamic Dawoodi Bohra community, with the purpose of exploring the relationship of spirituality to entrepreneurship. Design/methodology/approach Through a case study, this paper spotlights the entrepreneurship of immigrant women from the Dawoodi Bohra Islamic community in Sweden. Utilizing the l…
The strategic integration of pop and performance management: A viable partnership
The paper critiques the way ForceCo, a medium sized police force conceptualises and puts into practice the nature of POP and performance management methodologies. Based on data gleaned from a perception survey (sample 100% n = 3828, response rate 44%) and participant observation the analysis traces the rationale behind the initiatives and questions the way in which they were defined and implemented. The discussion highlights that there is much co…
Is the force still with her? Gender and commitment in the police
Seeks to make a contribution to reviewing the position of policewomen by analysing the nature of attitudinal commitment and its possible gendered meanings and gendering effects. Using survey data, compares the different levels of commitment between men and women and considers if commitment is shaped by the same or different variables. Reviews the theoretical background to organisation commitment and gender and its relationship to police organisat…
Gendering Teamwork: Re‐Writing the Feminine
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…
Feminist Communication Theory: Selections in Context
Feminist Communication Theory: An Introduction Part 1: Difference Difference in Feminist Communication Theory Who is Your Mother? Red Roots of White Feminism - Paula Gunn Allen Necessity of Differences: Constructing a Positive Category of Women - Marilyn Frye Reconciling Equality to Difference: Caring (F)or Justice for People with Disabilities - Anita Silvers Becoming Post Colonial: African Women Changing the Meaning of Citizenship - Patricia McF…
The woman question? Gender and management in the Russian Federation
Purpose The aim of this paper will be to examine the social and economic changes that have shaped women's work identity in the USSR and Russian Federation. Based on interview research with 30 female professionals in St Petersburg, Russia, we unravel the complexities of the “woman question” in soviet discourse and explore the individual subjectivities of managing gender and managing transition. Design/methodology/approach The paper adopts a life‐h…
East German women in management
Purpose To address the research gap on East German women managers and to examine some of the experiences of post‐socialist East German women who entered management positions during 1990s. The discussion focuses on the nature of women's commitment to career and organisation. Design/methodology/approach The study presented adopts a methodology based on a qualitative approach, the grounded theory approach as developed by Glaser. One‐to‐one, semi‐str…
Development of Culture, Welfare States and Women's Employment in Europe
Introducing gender, management and transition research
Gendered management in Hungary: Perceptions and explanations
Purpose To display both the statistical data and the subjective evaluation on the situation of women in management in Hungary. Design/methodology/approach In the last ten years research activity on gender and work countries have concentrated on the investigation of the sociological issue of the extent to which equal opportunity programmes at the company level have been accomplished in Hungary. The investigations consist of two interrelated parts:…
Developments in gender and management research in Central and Eastern European Europe (CEE)
The emerging identity of women managers in post‐Soviet Belarus
Purpose The paper critically reviews women managers' experiences of managing transition in post‐Soviet Belarus. The main aim of the paper is to explore the emerging learning experiences and learning practices of women managers in Belarus who are working in small and medium‐size business enterprises. Design/methodology/approach The paper commences with an exploration of the country context. It then seeks to draw attention to ongoing economic, poli…
Gender, work, and equal opportunities in central and eastern Europe
Purpose This paper examines gender, work and equal opportunities in central and eastern Europe (CEE) countries. The worker‐mother contract in socialist systems is discussed and reveals how transition from a communist economic system to a market economy has eroded women's equality within the workplace claimed with the Communist and economic social legacy. The aim is to explore the opportunities and constraints on women's professional career advanc…
Gendered dilemmas of the work‐life balance in Hungary
Purpose The aim of this paper is to examine the gendered nature of work‐life policies in and the work‐life conflicts of managers in a multinational corporation in Hungary. Design/methodology/approach The research is based on 30 qualitative interviews with male and female managers at junior, middle and senior management levels located in Unilevers Eastern European headquarters in Budapest. Findings The results show that while legislative measures …
Estonia in transition: Exploring the impact of change on women managers
Purpose - The main aim of this paper is to explore the general impact of post-Soviet transition on the experiences of women managers in Estonia. Using survey data the paper reviews women's responses to organisation change in a transition context. The paper focuses specifically on economic and social changes that are occurring in Estonia following its reassertion of independence from the Soviet Union. Design/methodology/approach - A contextual bac…
Women, Management and Globalization in the Middle East
Critical perspectives in diversity and equality management
Purpose - This paper aims to draw conceptual links between the papers in this special issue, arguing that diversity and equality research is located within varying socio-political, socio-demographic and geo-political contexts and should therefore be seen as fluid and subject to ongoing reformation. Design/methodology/approach - This paper provides a thematic and analytical review of six papers from the Gender, Diversity and Management track of th…
Redefining the way we look at diversity: A review of recent diversity and inclusion findings in organizational research
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to summarize the findings of studies presented at the 24th annual conference of the Society of Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP) in relation to how diversity is studied, microaggressions, when diversity is perceived, and employment outcomes for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered (LGBT) job applicants. Design/methodology/approach A select group of presentations are summarized based on observ…
The construction of gender identities in public sector organisations in Latin America: A view of the Dominican Republic
Purpose Literature on “gender and organisation” in developing countries is scarce. The purpose of this paper is to unveil the way in which gender construction is understood and operates within public organisational settings in the Dominican Republic. Design/methodology/approach Semi‐structured interviews were conducted with 27 women and 13 men from three organisations in the public sector in the Dominican Republic. The research was developed usin…
Becoming an international man: Top manager masculinities in the making of a multinational corporation
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to address gender and management in contemporary globalization by focusing on the ways in which male top managers in a multinational corporation (MNC) construct their identities in interviews with researchers. Design/methodology/approach Qualitative analysis based on interviews with virtually all top managers in the Nordic financial services company Nordea (53 men and two women). Findings It is found that beco…
Dialogue on gender and race equality: Conversations between Sweden and South Africa
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide insights into certain themes and discourses that have emerged from two research projects on gender and racial equality in higher education in Sweden and South Africa
Islamic sisters: Spirituality and ethnic entrepreneurship in Sweden
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to present a case study of ethnic minority entrepreneurship in Sweden offered through the sacred‐secular lens of the Islamic Dawoodi Bohra community, with the purpose of exploring the relationship of spirituality to entrepreneurship. Design/methodology/approach Through a case study, this paper spotlights the entrepreneurship of immigrant women from the Dawoodi Bohra Islamic community in Sweden. Utilizing the l…
Gender, development, and sex work in Lesotho
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the intersections of gender, development and globalization through an investigation of the ways in which a large‐scale, internationally financed multi‐dam development project, the Lesotho Highlands Water Project (LHWP), impacts gender relations through its physical presence in the highlands of Lesotho, Southern Africa. Design/methodology/approach Field research including interviews with men and wome…
Gender, globalization and organization: Exploring power, relations and intersections
Purpose Current debates on neo‐liberal and universalistic globalization pay little attention to gender or to other marginalized groups, and fail to consider the complexity and diversity of the experiences of men and women in specific socio‐political contexts, especially those in the developing world. The paper challenges mainstream theories which present globalization and its associated forces as gender neutral. The main purpose of this paper is …
Equality and diversity rhetoric: One size fits all? Globalization and the Portuguese context
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to assess the extent to which Portuguese companies have incorporated equality‐ and diversity‐related issues into their management discourse, and examine the prevalent rhetoric on these matters. Design/methodology/approach A comprehensive content analysis of the web sites of the 500 largest companies plus the 20 best companies to work for in Portugal, in 2005, according to the ranking of The Great Place to Work…
Leadership Development in the Middle East
Contents: 1. Leadership, Social Development and Political Economy in the Middle East: An Introduction Beverly Dawn Metcalfe and Tony Murfin 2. Globalization, Governance and Leadership Development in the Middle East Rodney Wilson 3. Leadership and Islam Abbas J. Ali 4. Leadership in UAE Abubakr M. Suliman and Rehana Hayat 5. Leadership and Organizational Change in the Middle East Christopher J. Rees, Rashid Althakhri and Aminu Mamman 6. Leadership…
Political science (24 works) · Sociology (23 works) · Gender Diversity and Inequality (22 works) · Social science (15 works) · Gender Studies (14 works) · Law (12 works) · Qualitative research (12 works) · Originality (11 works) · Politics (10 works) · Public relations (10 works)