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| Author: | Lindgren, M. Packendorff, J. |
| Title: | What's new in new forms of organizing? On the construction of gender in project-based work |
| Journal: | Journal of Management Studies
2006 : JUN, VOL 43:4, p. 841-866 |
| Index terms: | gender projects organizational design organizational structure |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | While project work is becoming the norm in many industries, its consequences have not been subject to critial analysis so far. This article examines how people handle project work and live their lives while doing it, taking on a constructionist gender perspective, i.e. seeing project work as an ongoing construction of patterns of femininity and masculinity in society. Drawing upon a case example of an IT-consultancy firm, it appears that current practices indicate reproduction of masculinities (rationality, efficiency, control, devotiong to work etc.) while femininization is found in the rhetoric of the organizational context and the expectations of newly recruited women. Since projects are delimited episodes of work, it is possible to apply entirely different norms than 'outside' the project - making the tendency to reproduce masculinities even stronger. |
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