Gender and the MBA

Kelan, Elisabeth K.; Jones, Rachel Dunkley

doi:10.5465/amle.9.1.zqr26

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“…Nevertheless, a pedagogy for teaching inclusion and diversity is not yet fully developed (Kelan and Jones, 2010), and it is much needed since discussions about diversity are often driven by the fear of saying something wrong and offensive (Ely et al, 2006).…”

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Imagine being asked to evaluate your CEO …: Using the constructive controversy approach to teach gender and management in times of economic crisis

Gherardi

Murgia

2014

Management Learning

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This article addresses the relationship between gender and management as intertwined discursive practices. Following a constructive controversial approach, we proposed to the students to complete a short story in which they have to give a feedback either to a fictitious female or to a male boss. The article has a dual aim since it offers a reflection on a teaching methodology suited to foster critical thinking in the classroom and analyzes the narratives so produced in search of what constitutes the students' idea of "good management." In positioning men/women CEO within a narrative, students enact a moral order that evaluates management in society. Their narratives reveal how the economic crisis has undermined the positive image of the male manager, while femaleness is emphasized for its anti-managerial imaginary. Moreover, the idea of what constitutes "good management" is constructed around an idea of care for both male and female CEOs.

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“…Therefore, in higher education and in gender and management education in particular, more subtle strategies are needed for gendering professional cultures and managerial education. Kelan and Jones (2010) identified several of those strategies:…”

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Imagine being asked to evaluate your CEO …: Using the constructive controversy approach to teach gender and management in times of economic crisis

Gherardi

Murgia

2014

Management Learning

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“…However, here too there BJM 9,2 is in practice a tendency for the majority of participants to be men. Prior research confirms that the proportion of women in MBAs is smaller than that of men (Sturges et al, 2003;Simpson, 2006;Ibeh et al, 2008;Kelan and Dunkley Jones, 2010). Nowadays an increasing number of top business schools in the world report programmes targeted at women.…”

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The effect of an MBA on the development of women's management competencies

Lämsä

Savela

2014

Baltic Journal of Management

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Purpose – This article aims to report the findings of a study of the effect of a women's Master of Business Administration (MBA) programme in Finland called the femaleMBA on the development of women's management competencies. The gendered nature of the competency development was also analyzed. Design/methodology/approach – A qualitative interview study was conducted with 20 women who completed the programme. Content analysis was used to analyze the data. Findings – In addition to improving the women's business competencies and their mastery of management language, the programme contributed to the creation of a clearer managerial identity, greater assertiveness, and increased credibility in a managerial role. The development of management competencies was shown to be gendered in varying ways. An all-women learning environment was experienced as a safe and supportive social context for development. Research limitations/implications – Only a specifically women's MBA was studied. The topic should also be studied in a mixed MBA group. Practical implications – MBAs should pay systematic attention to the informal and social learning context. A combination of “masculinity” and “femininity” might be worth taking into consideration when all-women management development programmes are planned and conducted. This study suggests that an all-women group in an MBA has the potential to challenge and even transform participants' ideas and assumptions about the dominance of masculinity in management and to increase their understanding of the importance of femininity in management. Originality/value – A gender angle on research into management development and particularly MBAs is very rare. This study shed light on the topic by showing that competency development in MBAs is not, as is often assumed, gender neutral but gendered.

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“…The business school offers a two-year MBA programme and has a specific focus on finance. This means that the study took place in a business school setting which has been described as masculine numerically and culturally (Kelan and Dunkley Jones, 2010;Fotaki, 2011;Sinclair, 1995). The sample included ten men and ten women.…”

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Gendered Identification: Between Idealization and Admiration

Kelan

Mah

2012

British J of Management

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While much of the literature on gender focuses on role models, this article extends the understanding of gendered professional identification processes by exploring these processes through the lenses of idealization and admiration. Using the method of discourse analysis to analyse MBA students' accounts of people who they identify with, this article explores discourses of idealization, defined as aggrandising a person, and of admiration, which means to discuss positive as well as negative and neutral characteristics of a person. We show firstly that most male and female MBA students idealised the self-made 'authentic' CEO or founder of an organization. Secondly, we found that women mainly admired other women through naming their positive, neutral and negative attributes. The article thereby adds to our understanding of how gendered identification processes are structured by idealization and admiration.

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Gender and the MBA

Cited by 33 publications

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Imagine being asked to evaluate your CEO …: Using the constructive controversy approach to teach gender and management in times of economic crisis

Imagine being asked to evaluate your CEO …: Using the constructive controversy approach to teach gender and management in times of economic crisis

The effect of an MBA on the development of women's management competencies

Gendered Identification: Between Idealization and Admiration

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