Gendering Teamwork: Rewriting the Feminine

Metcalfe, B; Pullen, A

Gendering Teamwork: Rewriting the Feminine

Metcalfe, B Pullen, A

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Publisher:: Blackwell Publishing Ltd
Publication Type:: Journal Article
Citation:: Gender, Work and Organization, 2003, 10 (1), pp. 94 - 119
Issue Date:: 2003-01

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dc.contributor.author	Metcalfe, B	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Pullen, A	en_US
dc.date.issued	2003-01	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	Gender, Work and Organization, 2003, 10 (1), pp. 94 - 119	en_US
dc.identifier.issn	0968-6673	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/10218
dc.description.abstract	Recognizing the neglect of gender in the prescriptive and critical fields of teamwork, this article explores the gendered processes of teams. The argument presented in this article challenges masculinist discourse inherent in team theorizing and empirical research. This masculinism, we argue, stems from the so-called gender-neutral performance criteria and practices of team organization and management. Analysing The Wisdom of Teams (Katzenbach and Smith, 1993) highlights the implicit gendering processes of the team rhetoric. To illuminate the latent gendered practices a case study, Nylons, is discussed. Both methods of analysis unveil the dominance of masculinist discourses that subjugates and suppresses femaleness and femininity. The article concludes by highlighting areas for furthering critical debates in the teamwork arena that centre on analysing the complex and ambiguous power relations that influence, and are influenced by, the construction and re-construction of gendered identities in teamwork and the gendered relations of power in teamwork practice.	en_US
dc.publisher	Blackwell Publishing Ltd	en_US
dc.relation.ispartof	Gender, Work and Organization	en_US
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dc.subject.classification	Gender Studies	en_US
dc.title	Gendering Teamwork: Rewriting the Feminine	en_US
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Abstract:

Recognizing the neglect of gender in the prescriptive and critical fields of teamwork, this article explores the gendered processes of teams. The argument presented in this article challenges masculinist discourse inherent in team theorizing and empirical research. This masculinism, we argue, stems from the so-called gender-neutral performance criteria and practices of team organization and management. Analysing The Wisdom of Teams (Katzenbach and Smith, 1993) highlights the implicit gendering processes of the team rhetoric. To illuminate the latent gendered practices a case study, Nylons, is discussed. Both methods of analysis unveil the dominance of masculinist discourses that subjugates and suppresses femaleness and femininity. The article concludes by highlighting areas for furthering critical debates in the teamwork arena that centre on analysing the complex and ambiguous power relations that influence, and are influenced by, the construction and re-construction of gendered identities in teamwork and the gendered relations of power in teamwork practice.

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