The documentary construction of female mismanagement
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12925864 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sylvia Hale (St. Thomas University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1987 |
| Volume | 24 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 489-513 |
| Publication date | 1987-11-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Canadian Review of Sociology/Revue canadienne de sociologie (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1755-6171 • E-ISSN: 1755-618X |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1755-618x.1987.tb00640.x |
| OpenAlex | W2156123716 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 12 |
Voici cinq femmes, cadres à l'emploi de la fonction publique indienne, dont la tâche est d'organiser des projets de développement rural. Et voici deux façons d'expliquer leurs expériences au travail: la première releve d'une perspective gestionnaire conventionnelle, que s'attache à leur évidente inefficacité, laquelle s'expliquerait par leur compétence de gestionnaires limitée. l'autre approche, plutô que de se fonder sur une certaine conception de la ‘bonne gestion, examine les situations dans lesquelles ces femmes se sont trouvées. Elle critique ainsi les pratiques idéologiques des sciences sociales, qui excluent systématiquement I'expérience des femmes de la construction sociale du savoir. This paper will present two accounts of the management experiences of five female managers employed in the Indian Civil Service to organize rural development projects. The first account will be from the prespective of traditional management theory as applied to women, examining the manifest failure of these women to carry through their responsibilities effectively, and seeking explanations in their limited ability to follow good management practices. The second account will attempt to go behind these explanations, and to challenge the ideological assumptions on which they are based. This approach does not begin with the concept of ‘good management, but rather with what actually happened to the women as they tried to do their jobs. It draws heavily upon the work of Dorothy Smith, who critiques the ideological practices in social science through which women's experiences are systematically excluded from the social construction of knowledge
Art · Ethnology · Humanities · Ideology · Perspective (graphical · Political science · Sociology · Gender Diversity and Inequality · Law · Management and Organizational Studies · Philosophy · Work-Family Balance Challenges
| Citations per year | 0.03 |
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| Citation span | 1992 - 1992 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |