[Gesth-l] Fwd: EQ-UNI: EURAM2006, Track on Gender and Management in the Public Sector

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Liisa Husu <liisa.husu at helsinki.fi> wrote:  Date: Sat, 10 Dec 2005 10:12:38 +0100
From: Liisa Husu <liisa.husu at helsinki.fi>
To: eq-uni at helsinki.fi
Subject: EQ-UNI: EURAM2006, Track on Gender and Management in the Public Sector

  Dear eq-uni,

Please find below information on another EURAM2006 (European Academy of 
Management) track related to gender. The track organisers Jim Barry, 
Elisabeth Berg and John Chandler would like to interest many eq-uni members 
since, although the Track covers public sector generally, their specialist 
area is higher education. 

best regards,

Liisa Husu * liisa.husu at helsinki.fi * eq-uni list moderator

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EURAM 2006
Norwegian School of Management
Oslo, Norway
17th -20th May 2006

Track Theme: Gender and Management in the Public Sector

Convenors: Jim Barry, Elisabeth Berg and John Chandler

The recent growth of a new managerialism in the public sector, following 
economic restructuring and political realignment in the wake of a 
pervasive neo-liberalism, is by now a well-documented phenomenon. Yet 
there is relatively little on gender and the new public management as a 
field of critical enquiry.

Managerialism in the public sector, or the new public management as it has 
been dubbed, has played a pivotal role in recent changes in many public 
sectors around the world. Whether a new historicism, in the tradition of 
Burnham's managerialism, Kerr et al's industrialism, Fukuyama's political 
liberalism and even, in neo-institutionalist terms, DiMaggio and Powell's 
organisational isomorphism, the new managerialism has been in evidence; 
with recent research from a number of countries having identified 
shortcomings. Topics receiving critical attention have included 
performance management and managerial evangelism, with some 
acknowledgement of the importance of local and regional as well as 
national factors at work. All this suggests the need for critical post-new 
public management analysis and a questioning of the new managerial 
abstraction itself, to include perspectives that take account of gender. 
In addition, we note that there has been relatively little on the 
significance of resistance, both formally (for example through Trade 
Unionism) and informally (through networks, individual action and symbolic 
challenge), or of gender identity and the part it plays in propagating 
and/or mediating the new managerial regimes.

In acknowledging new modes of social and political interaction, a number 
of authors have looked beyond the new public managerialism, pointing to 
the increasing significance of non-traditional, flexible, loosely 
connected networks, and the importance of governance. Yet little of this 
has explored the gender dimensions. There has also been little 
consideration given to the part played by civil society and those who 
operate outside recognised institutions, or bring women's movement values 
from civil society into the organisational arena. In this, external 
influences have affected organizational processes, calling into question 
the work/life balance and the significance of organizational boundaries, 
as well as drawing attention to the complex interplay of identities 
enacted and negotiated within public sector organisations.

This Track focuses on developments such as these, in relation to gender, 
as they affect public sectors across Europe and worldwide. It is 
anticipated that a number of topics will be addressed, including identity, 
ethics, equal opportunities, diversity, sexuality, race and ethnicity, 
leadership, governance and resistance, although submissions are invited on 
any aspect of gender and managerialism in the public sector that helps to 
advance our understanding of this area of research.

Further information from EURAM web site

The EURAM website can be visited at:  www.euram2006.no

The 2006 Conference theme is 'Energizing European Management!'. The 
'Gender and Management in the Public Sector' track can be located by 
clicking on 'Tracks' (left side of screen), followed by 'Knowledge 
Management, Organization, Leadership' (middle), and finally 'Gender and 
Management in the Public sector' (middle).


Deadline for submissions: 1st February, 2006
As will be seen from the web site, authors are invited by the EURAM 
organisers to 'submit papers with an abstract of no more than 200 words 
and maximum 5 key words. Papers must be submitted in digital form 
(Microsoft Word .doc format). Submission by digital upload will begin on 
December 1, 2005 on the conference web site &#65533; Information on format, 
style, and references will be posted on the EURAM Web site on November 25, 
2005.'

Contact details for convenors

Authors are more than welcome to contact any of us if they have any 
queries, as follows:

Jim Barry University of East London
Tel: 0044 (0)208 223 2207
Fax: 0044 (0)208 223 2899
E-mail: j.j.barry at uel.ac.uk

Elisabeth Berg Luleå University of Technology
Tel: 0046 (0)920 4916 63
Fax: 0046 (0)920 4910 30
E-mail: elisabeth.berg at ltu.se

John Chandler University of East London
Tel: 0044 (0)208 223 2211
Fax: 0044 (0)208 223 2899
E-mail: j.p.chandler at uel.ac.uk


Jim Barry, Elisabeth Berg and John Chandler
17th November 2005



			
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