332
Views
10
CrossRef citations to date
0
Altmetric
Original Articles

A tale of the field: reading power and gender in the learning organization

Pages 17-31 | Published online: 13 Oct 2010

References

  • Abrahamsson , L . (2001) . Gender-based learning dilemmas in organizations . Journal of Workplace Learning , 13 (7/8) : 298 – 308 .
  • Acker , J . (1990) . Hierarchies, jobs, bodies: a theory of gendered organizations . Gender and Society , 4 (2) : 139 – 155 .
  • Acker J (1992) Gendering organizational theory in: A. J. Mills & P. Tancred (Eds) Gendering organizations analysis Thousand Oaks CA Sage 248 260
  • Acker J Van Houten DR (1992) Differential recruitment and control: the sex structuring of organizations in: A. J. Mills & P. Tancred (Eds) Gendering organizations analysis Thousand Oaks CA Sage 15 30
  • Argyris C (1992) On organisational learning Malden MA Blackwell Publishers
  • Bierema , LL . (1999) . A model of executive women's learning and development . Adult Education Quarterly , 49 (2) : 107 – 123 .
  • Bierema , LL . (2001) . Women, work and learning . New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education , 92 ( Winter ) : 53 – 62 .
  • Bierema , LL . (2003) . The role of gender consciousness in challenging patriarchy . International Journal of Lifelong Education , 22 (1) : 3 – 12 .
  • Burrell G (1992) Sex and organizational analysis in: A. J. Mills & P. Tancred (Eds) Gendering organizations analysis Thousand Oaks CA Sage 71 92
  • Burton C (1992) Merit and gender: organizations and the mobilization of masculine bias in: A. J. Mills & P. Tancred (Eds) Gendering organizations analysis Thousand Oaks CA Sage 185 196
  • Cala’ MB Smircich L (1992) Using the ‘F’ word: feminist theories and the social consequences of organizational research in: A. J. Mills & P. Tancred (Eds) Gendering organizations analysis Thousand Oaks CA Sage 222 234
  • Chappell C (1999) Theorizing identity Unpublished manuscript Faculty of Education, University of Technology Sydney 1 22
  • Contu , A and Willmott , H . (2003) . Re-embedding situatedness: the importance of power relations in learning theory . Organization Science , 14 (3) : 283 – 296 .
  • Coopey , J and Burgoyne , J . (2000) . Politics and organizational learning . Journal of Management Studies , 37 (3) : 869 – 885 .
  • Danaher G Schirato T Webb J (2000) Understanding Foucault St Leonards NSW Allen & Unwin
  • Devos , A . (1996) . Gender, work and workplace learning . Studies in Continuing Education , 2 : 110 – 120 .
  • Ellis C Bochner A (2000) Autoethnography, personal narrative, reflexivity research as subject Handbook of qualitative research Thousand Oaks CA Sage 733 768
  • Fenwick T (1998) Questioning the concept of the learning organisation Learning for life: Canadian readings in adult education Toronto ON Thompson Educational Publishing 140 152
  • Field , L . (1997) . Impediments to empowerment and learning within organizations . The Learning Organization , 4 (4) : 149 – 158 .
  • Field L with Ford B (1995) Managing organisational learning: from rhetoric to reality Vic Australia Addison Wesley Longman
  • Foucault M (1972) The archaeology of knowledge London Tavistock
  • Foucault M (1983) The subject and power in: H. Drefyus & P. Rabinow (Eds) Michel Foucault: beyond structuralism and hermeneutics Chicago University of Chicago Press 208 226
  • Foucault M (1988) Technologies of the self in: H. Gutman & P. Hutton (Eds) Technologies of the self Cambridge MA University of Massachusetts Press
  • Game A Pringle R (1983) Gender at work Sydney Allen & Unwin
  • Hayes , ER . (2001) . A new look at women's learning . New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education , 89 (Spring) : 35 – 42 .
  • Hayes E Flannery DD (2000) Women as learners: the significance of gender in adult learning San Francisco Jossey-Bass
  • Hearn J Parkin PW (1992) Gender and organizations: a selective review and a critique of a neglected area in: A. J. Mills & P. Tancred (Eds) Gendering organizations analysis Thousand Oaks CA Sage 46 66
  • Holt , L . (2003) . Representation, legitimization and autoethnography: an autoethnographic writing story . International Journal of Qualitative Methods , 2 (1) : 1 – 7 .
  • Howell , SL , Carter , VK and Schied , FM . (2002) . Gender and women's experience at work: a critical and feminist perspective on human resource development . Adult Education Quarterly , 52 (2) : 112 – 128 .
  • Jackson N (1991) Skills formation and gender relations: the politics of who knows what Victoria Deacon University
  • Jenson J (1989) The talents of women, the skills of men: flexible specialization and women The transformation of work London Unwin Hyman 141 155
  • Marsick VJ Watkins KE (1999a) Facilitating learning organisations: making the learning count London Gower
  • Marsick , VJ and Watkins , E . (1999b) . Looking again at the learning in the learning organization: a tool that can turn into a weapon! . The Learning Organization , 6 (5) : 207 – 211 .
  • Martin , J . (2000) . Hidden gendered assumptions in mainstream organizational theory and research . Journal of Management Inquiry , 9 (2) : 207 – 216 .
  • Martino , W . (1999) . Cool boys’, ‘party animals’, ‘squids’ and ‘poofters’: interrogating the dynamics and politics of adolescent masculinities in school . British Journal of Sociology of Education , 20 (2) : 239 – 261 .
  • McNay L (1992) Foucault and feminism: power gender and the self Oxford Polity Press in association with Blackwell Publishers
  • McNay L (1994) Foucault: a critical introduction Oxford Polity Press in association with Blackwell Publishers
  • Metcalfe , B and Linstead , A . (2003) . Gendering teamwork: re-writing the feminine . Gender, Work and Organization , 10 (1) : 94 – 119 .
  • Mills AJ (1992) Organization, gender and culture in: A. J. Mills & P. Tancred (Eds) Gendering organizations analysis Thousand Oaks CA Sage 93 111
  • Mojab , S and Gorman , R . (2003) . Women and consciousness in the ‘learning organisation’: emancipation or exploitation? . Adult Education Quarterly , 53 (4) : 228 – 241 .
  • Morley L (2003) Sounds, silences and contradictions: gender equity in commonwealth higher education Clare Burton Memorial Lecture 2003 University of London Institute of Education UK
  • Popper , M and Lipshitz , R . (2000) . Organizational learning: mechanisms, culture and feasibility . Management Learning , 31 (2) : 181 – 196 .
  • Reynolds , R and Ablett , A . (1998) . Transforming the rhetoric of organizational learning to the reality of the learning organization . The Learning Organization , 5 (1) : 24 – 35 .
  • Rhodes C (2001) Writing organisation: (re) presentation and control in narratives at work Amsterdam and Philadelphia John Benjamin
  • Rifkin , W and Fulop , L . (1997) . A review and case study on learning organizations . The Learning Organization , 4 (4) : 135 – 148 .
  • Senge P (1994) The fifth discipline fieldbook: strategies and tools for building a learning organisation London Nicholas Brealey
  • Sheppard D (1992) Women managers’ perspectives of gender and organizational life in: A. J. Mills & P. Tancred (Eds) Gendering organizations analysis Thousand Oaks CA Sage 151 166
  • Sheriff P Campbell EJ (1992) Room for women: a case study in the sociology of organizations in: A. J. Mills & P. Tancred (Eds) Gendering organizations analysis Thousand Oaks CA Sage 31 45
  • Smith , CR . (1998) . Best practice in management: capitalising on gender diversity awareness . Journal of Management Development , 17 (1) : 6
  • Steiner , L . (1998) . Organizational dilemmas as barriers to learning . The Learning Organization , 5 (4) : 193 – 201 .
  • Tennant , M . (1998) . Adult education as a technology of the self . International Journal of Lifelong Education , 13 (4) : 1 – 13 .
  • Van Maanen J (1998) Tales of the field: on writing ethnography Chicago University of Chicago Press
  • Watkins KE Marsick VJ (1993) Sculpting the learning organization: lessons in the art and science of systemic change San Francisco Jossey-Bass
  • Wilson , F . (1996) . Research note: organizational theory: blind and deaf to gender? . Organization Studies , 17 (5) : 825 – 843 .

Reprints and Corporate Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

To request a reprint or corporate permissions for this article, please click on the relevant link below:

Academic Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

Obtain permissions instantly via Rightslink by clicking on the button below:

If you are unable to obtain permissions via Rightslink, please complete and submit this Permissions form. For more information, please visit our Permissions help page.