Why not teach "diversity" to public sector managers?

International Journal of Public Sector Management

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 368-382

  Page, Margaret ^a   Oldfield, Chrissie ^b   Urstad, Birgit ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST OF ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

^b LONDON SOUTH BANK UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c TRONDHEIM BUSINESS SCHOOL   (Norway)

Author keywords

Equal opportunities; Managers; Professional education; Public sector organizations

Indexed keywords

EID: 44949213856     PISSN: 09513558     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/09513550810880241     Document Type: Article

References (40)

1. Acker, J. (2006), "Inequality regimes: Gender, class, and race in organizations", Gender and Society, Vol. 20 No. 4, pp. 441-64.
2. Adler, N.J. and Izraeli, D.N. (1994), Competitive Frontiers, Basil Blackwell Ltd, Oxford.
3. Bravette, G. (1996), "Reflections on a black woman's management learning", Women in Management Review, Vol. 11 No. 3, pp. 3-11.
4. Breitenbach, E., Brown, A., Mackay, F. and Webb, H. (2002), The Changing Politics of Gender Equality in Britain, Palgrave, Basingstoke and New York, NY.
5. Broussine, M. and Fox, P. (2002), "Rethinking leadership in local government - the place of 'feminine' styles in the modernised council", Local Government Studies, Vol. 28 No. 4, pp. 91-106.
6. Collinson, D.L. and Hearn, J. (1996), Men as Managers, Managers as Men; Critical Perspectives on Men, Masculinities and Managements, Sage Publications, London.
7. Ely, R. and Meyerson, D. (2000), "Advancing gender equity on organizations: The challenge and importance of maintaining a gender narrative", Organization, Vol. 7 No. 4, pp. 589-607.
8. Equal Opportunities Commission (2007), Sex and Power Who Rules Britain?, Equal Opportunities Commission, London, January.
9. ETUC (2007), Mid-term Review of the ETUC Equality Plan 2003-2007, available at: www.etuc.org/.
10. Gherardi, S. (1995), Gender, Symbolism and Organisational Cultures, Sage Publications, London.
11. Hartley, J. and Rashman, L. (2003), "Networking and the modernisation of local public service: Implications for diversity", in Davidson, M. and Fielden, S. (Eds), Individual Diversity in Organisations, Wiley, Chichester, pp. 265-83.
12. Hatch, M.J. (1997), Organization Theory: Modern, Symbolic and Post Modern Perspectives, Oxford University Press, Oxford.
13. Hill, M. (2002), Implementing Public Policy: Governance in Theory and Practice, Sage Publications, London.
14. Holberg, L. (1741/1997), Niels Klims reise til den underjordiske verden, Aschehoug, Oslo.
15. Itzin, C. and Newman, J. (1995), Gender, Culture and Organisational Change, Routledge, London.
16. Kumar, K. (1991), Utopianism, Open University Press, Milton Keynes.
17. Levitas, R. (2001), "For utopia: (the limits of the) utopian function in late capitalist society", in Goodwin, B. (Ed.), The Philosophy of Utopia, Frank Cass Publishers, London, pp. 25-43.
18. Linstead, S., Fulop, L. and Lilley, S. (2004), Management and Organization, A Critical Text, Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke and New York, NY.
19. Marshall, J. (1995), Women Managers Moving on, Routledge, London.
20. Mason, D. (2002), "Equality, opportunity and difference: The limits of the diversity paradigm", in Breitenbach, E., Brown, A., Mackay, F. and Webb, J. (Eds), The Changing Politics of Gender Equality in Britain, Palgrave, Basingstoke and New York, NY.
21. Mathisen, W.C. (2006), "Utopier - noe for statsvitere?", Norsk Statsvitenskapelig Tidsskrift, Vol. 4, pp. 420-32.
22. Mills, A.J. and Tancred, P. (1992), Gendering Organisational Analysis, Sage, London.
23. Newman, J. (2002a), "Managerialism, modernisation and marginalisation: Equal opportunities and institutional change", in Breitenbach, E., Brown, A., Mackay, F. and Webb, J. (Eds), The Changing Politics of Gender Equality in Britain, Palgrave, Basingstoke and New York, NY.
24. Newman, J. (2002b), "Putting the policy back into social policy", Social Policy and Society, Vol. 1 No. 4, pp. 347-54.
25. Page, M.L. (2003), "Leadership and collaboration challenges in not for profit partnerships", Organisational and Social Dynamics, Vol. 3 No. 2, pp. 207-25.
26. Page, M.L. and Sanger, C. (2007), "Subverting utopias/dangerous dialogue: Inquiry in experiential teaching and learning", Organisational and Social Dynamics, Vol. 7 No. 2, pp. 234-52.
27. Reason, P. and Bradbury, H. (2001), Handbook of Action Research, Participative Inquiry and Practice, Sage Publications, London.
28. Rees, T. (2005), "Reflections on the uneven development of gender mainstreaming in Europe", International Feminist Journal of Politics, Vol. 7 No. 4, pp. 555-74.
29. Rees, T. (1998), Mainstreaming Equality in the European Union, Routledge, London.
30. Riley, K. (1990), "Equality for women - the role of local authorities", Local Government Studies, January/February, pp. 49-67.
31. Scott, M. (2002), "Women and local government-dialogue, deliberation and diversity", in Breitenbach, E., Brown, A., Mackay, F. and Webb, J. (Eds), The Changing Politics of Gender Equality in Britain, Palgrave, Basingstoke and New York, NY, pp. 164-77.
32. Shaw, P. (2002), Changing Conversations in Organizations, Routledge, London.
33. Sinclair, A. (1995), "ex and the MBA", Organization, Vol. 2 No. 2, pp. 295-317.
34. Sinclair, A. (2005), "Body and management pedagogy", Gender Work and Organization, Vol. 12 No. 1, pp. 91-104.
35. Stacey, R., Griffin, D. and Shaw, P. (2000), Complexity and Management, Fad or Radical Challenge to Systems Thinking?, Routledge, London.
36. Teigen, M. (2005), "Positive action and quotas: Their importance in general and their role in the Norwegian equal opportunities policy", ISF Paper 2005:101, paper presented at the Hans-Bökler Stiftung Conference: Strategies of Equal Opportunity Policies in the Private Economy, Berlin, 20-21 January.
37. UNISON (2007), "International labour migration", discussion paper, UNISON, available at: www.unison.org.uk/features/.
38. Vogt, W.P. (1997), Tolerance and Education: Learning to Live with Diversity and Difference, Sage Publications, Thousand Oaks, CA.
39. Wajcman, J. (1998), Managing Like a Man: Women and Men in Corporate Management, Polity Press, Oxford.
40. Walby, S. (2005), "Introduction: Comparative gender mainstreaming in a global era", International Feminist Journal of Politics, Vol. 7 No. 4, pp. 453-70.