 | XIMB Fellow Programme in Management (Doctoral Level) |
| FPM Scholars Mousumi <email> | Women in Management Guide: Snigdha Pattnaik About Women in Management Women, today, are becoming more and more mainstream participants in the world of work, successfully reaching senior positions in traditional male strongholds. Alongside, these achievements are also reports of frustrations, harassments and disappointments suffered by women in many work organisations. Traditional management research, while purporting to be gender-neutral has largely been about men-in-management. Men have been both researchers as well as the subjects of the research, partly because men are over-represented in organisations. In a male dominated organisational world, the prevalent expectation is that women’s expectations can be adequately understood from the perspective of the dominant gender culture. Therefore, the reality of gender differentials has remained largely unacknowledged and unchallenged. Women-in-management research denotes a whole field of research that has been concerned with exploring issues related to the representation, treatment, quality of life and success of women in organisational settings. It has become a distinct field of study since the 1970s and primarily focuses on four perspectives--a person-centred perspective, an organisation-structure perspective, a gender-organisation-system perspective, and power-influence-in-organisation perspective. Lenses that have been used include that of feminism and gender studies, applied psychology and behavioural science, human resource management, and sociology, to name a few. The focus of research would be to discover and understand the processes, dynamics and contradictions of women's everyday experiences at the work place. Researchers interested in working in this domain can choose to work in any of these areas. Resources Books Davidson, Marilyn J., & Burke, Ronald J. (Eds). (2004). Women in management worldwide. Ashgate. Ghadially, Rehana. (Ed.). (2007). Urban women in contemporary India: A reader. Sage. Gorden, F. E., & Strober, Myra H. (1975). Bringing women into management. McGraw-Hill. Harvard Business Review. (2005). Harvard Business Review on women in business. Harvard Business School Press. Journals Gender, Work & Organization Equal Opportunities International Women in Management Review Culture and Organization Expected Profile Applicants in this research area should have an interest and passion for studying issues related to women and gender dynamics in organisational settings, from a multidisciplinary perspective. Some familiarity with the literature on feminism and women's studies will be expected. The candidate should be willing to read and synthesise literature from diverse areas such as psychology, sociology, organisation science, behavioural science, human resource management, etc. Excellent writing skills in academic English will be essential. |
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