Sex, Strategy and the Stratosphere: Airlines and the Gendering of Organizational Culture (repost)
Sex, Strategy and the Stratosphere: Airlines and the Gendering of Organizational Culture by Albert Mills
English | ISBN 10: 1403998574 | 2006 | PDF | 336 pages | 3.5 MB
English | ISBN 10: 1403998574 | 2006 | PDF | 336 pages | 3.5 MB
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.
Drawing on in-depth interviews and extensive archival material, the author presents an 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.