Women learning to become managers: learning to fit in or to play a different game?

Bryans, Patricia and Mavin, Sharon (2003) Women learning to become managers: learning to fit in or to play a different game? Management Learning, 34 (1). pp. 111-134. ISSN 1350-5076

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Abstract

This article explores women's experiences of learning to become managers. We do not provide a comparison of women and men learning to become managers but highlight women s experiences and therefore `change the subject'. This includes the subject as person and the subject as topic, leading us to look at women rather than men as managers, investigating women learning to become managers rather than men. In the article we discuss empirical data resulting from a questionnaire and subsequent thematic group discussion with `average' women managers. We highlight the importance to women managers of learning from and with others and focus on the contradiction women managers face, that of whether to learn to fit in to the dominant paradigm of management or to play a different game, to do management differently.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	feminist approach, fitting in, learning management, storytelling, women managers
Subjects:	N200 Management studies
Department:	Faculties > Business and Law > Newcastle Business School
Depositing User:	EPrint Services
Date Deposited:	11 Aug 2008 08:57
Last Modified:	19 Nov 2019 10:05
URI:	http://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/2327

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