Sex, strategy and the stratosphere [Elektronisk resurs] Airlines and the gendering of organizational culture / Albert J. Mills.

• List of Tables List of Figures LIst of Exhibits List of Abbreviations Acknowledgements Gender, Culture and Commercial Airlines The Gendering of Civil Aviation 1919-1924 Thoroughly Modern Milieu: The Feminine Presence in the Airways Their Finest Hour: Gendering and the Second World War Angels with Dirty Faces: Strategies of 'Normalization' and 'Equity' in the Immediate Post-War Era The Invasion of the Body Snatchers: The Jet Age and the Eroticization of the Female Employee Close Encounters of the Third Kind: Towards an Employment Equity Discourse From Here to Eternity: Making Sense of the Gendering of Organizational Culture Appendix Notes Bibliography.

• This book provides an historical account of how discriminatory practices develop and change. The author presents a historical account of the discriminatory practices of airline companies British Airways, Air Canada and Pan American Airways. It covers the years 1919 to 1991 and is organized around key periods in the treatment of female employees. -- This book bridges a crucial gap in the literature on gender and organizational culture by providing an historical account of how discriminatory practices develop, are maintained but also change over time. Studies of management and organizations rarely concern themselves with issues of gender, except in the most superficial manner. The 'neglect' of gender within management and organization studies has given rise to a growing number of feminist critiques, as yet however there is little work which seeks to explain how discriminatory practices develop, are sustained, and change in organizations over time. This book documents and explains the gendering of three particular organisations - British Airways, Air Canada and Pan American Airways. Drawing on in-depth interviews and extensive archival material, the author presents a historical account of the way specific discriminatory practices developed and changed over the life of three airline companies - British Airways, Air Canada and Pan American Airways. The book covers the period 1919 to 1991 and is organized around key periods in the hiring and treatment of female employees but the focus is on gender in the broadest sense of the word (looking at the social construction of male and female sexuality; heterosexuality and homosexuality). Gender is explored through analysis of organizational symbolism, workplace practices and organizational structuring. As a history of discriminatory practices the book is unique in the field of business and corporate history. 

Ämnesord

Feminist theory.  (LCSH)

Sex role in the work environment  -- Case studies. (LCSH)

Sexual division of labor  -- Case studies. (LCSH)

Corporate culture  -- Case studies. (LCSH)

Business and Management.  (eflch)

Institutionsnamn

British Airways.

Pan American World Airways Inc.

Air Canada.

Klassifikation

BUS (ämneskategori)

387.742 (DDC)

Prdd (kssb/8 (machine generated))