A Context of Organizational Culture on Business Management. The gender aspects of organizations
Abstract
Organizations are culturally constructed through social as well as political and business processes. As such they are created and changed by the management of meanings, partly by organizational leaders who are given that role by the subordinates.
While the gender aspects of organizations have been studied widely in recent years, many of these studies are based on a critical understanding of individual life patterns and their organizationally bound behavior, biased because the differences between men and women are not taken into account in studies classically con-ducted by male researchers. Since organizations are products of culture and they produce culture, the managers – male and female – have a significant role in this process as well as in its single gender-biased incidents.
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