Organizational Behaviour and Gender provides an alternative to the gender silence of the standard OB textbooks. This Second Edition updates and expands the text's coverage and employs the most recent research findings to portray the world of work in a realistic manner. Organizational Behaviour and Gender is a comprehensive text. The text examines some of the assumptions that have been made about women at work - for example that women's 'difference' is rooted in biology and that women and men have contrasting (and even polar opposite) skills and attitudes. The text considers the key topics in OB (such as selection, assessment,leadership and motivation) to test such assumptions. The book describes the reality of working life for women. It examines issues of low pay, part-time working, family responsibilities, home working and horizontal and vertical job segregation. It asks whether inequality of opportunity comes about because of actual gender differences or from prejudicial expectations and thinking. The last chapter is about sex and sexuality in organizations. Sexual behaviour in organizations is pervasive but is rarely discussed in OB textbooks. This chapter describes the masculine and heterosexual business environment and examines the issues of work romances and sexual harassment. The text provides numerous learning aids (including discussion topics and chapter questions) to assist both the lecturer and the student.
Carefully researched and thought provoking, the first edition of Organizational Behaviour and Gender was a rarity - a textbook that examined what is perhaps the key determinant of real-world organizational life. Now revised and expanded, this second edition will appeal to a new generation of students dissatisfied with textbooks that portray the world of work as predominantly harmonious. Organizational Behaviour and Gender - Second Edition is a comprehensive text that considers the standard organizational behaviour topics (such as selection, appraisal, motivation and leadership) and puts the theoretical assumption of gender neutrality within organisations under examination.
