Transforming Managers

Stephen Whitehead Keele University, Roy Moodley Sheffield University

• Part 1: Women in the management arena; women managers in higher education; giving the right message - why women tend not to apply for senior positions; how does it feel? - women managers, embodiment and changing public sector cultures. Part 2: Unmasking men and management; men as a management problem; power and resistance in the academy - the case of women academic managers; engendering labour - women cleaning up the house?; men, managers and management - the case of higher education; shifting masculinities - gender and restructuring in a local authority; making sense of men's experiences in public sector organizatons; masculinity, new managerial discourses and the problematics of intimacy in organizations.

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