Most managers in most organizations in most countries are men. This book is the first international work to address the relationships between men, masculinities and managements. It examines the processes through which gendered managerial structures, cultures and practices are reproduced. Exploring top and middle managers, entrepreneurs, corporate executives, and public and private sector managers, the book breaks new ground by critically examining the gendered power processes that have largely been assumed and ignored by conventional organizational and management theory.

As well as providing new insights into how managements and masculinities may reinforce each other, this challenging book ultimately explores the ways in which both management and men might be changed, even transformed.

• Cover 2
• Contents 7
• Preface 9
• The Contributors 10
• 1 - Breaking the Silence: On Men, Masculinities and Managements 13
• 2 - Masters and Men in the Transition from Factory Hands to Sentimental Workers 37
• 3 - The Gender of Bureaucracy 55
• 4 - Technocracy, Patriarchy and Management 73
• 5 - 'The Best is Yet to Come?': The Quest for Embodiment in Managerial Work 90
• 6 - Entrepreneurialism and Paternalism in Australian Management: A Gender Critique of the 'Self-Made' Man 111
• 7 - Entrepreneurialism, Masculinitiesand the Self-Made Man 135
• 8 - Quiet Whispers . . . Men Accounting for Women, West to East 162
• 9 - Multinational Masculinities and European Bureaucracies 179
• 10 - Gendering and Evaluating Dynamics: Men, Masculinities, and Managements 198
• 11 - ' Seduction and Succession': Circuits of Homosocial Desire in Management 222