Kelly Dye

Understanding organizational change

Part 1: Introduction 1,.Why Study Organizational Change? 2. Thinking About Change: Early Models of Organizational Change Part 2: Programming Organizational Change 3. Organizational Culture and Change 4. Change Management Techniques and Strategies Part 3. The Social Psychology of Change 5. Managing Change: Fads, Fashions and Gurus 6. Gender and Organizational Change 7. The Politics of Organizational Change 8. Making Sense of Organizational Change

Maslow: man interrupted: reading management theory in context

Purpose – This paper aims to build on recent work in the field of management and historiography that argues that management theorizing needs to be understood in its historical context.Design/methodology/approach – First, the paper attempts to show how a steady filtering of management theory and of the selection and work of management theorists lends itself to a narrowly focused, managerialist, and functionalist perspective. Second, the paper attempts to show how not only left‐wing ideas, but also even the rich complexity of mainstream ideas, have been “written out” of management accounts. The paper explores these points through an examination of the treatment of Abraham Maslow in management texts over time.Findings – The papers conclusion is a simple one: management theory – whether mainstream or critical – does a disservice to the potential of the field when it oversimplifies to a point where a given theory or theorist is misread because sufficient context, history, and reflection are missing from the p...

There’s nothing as good as a practical theory: The paradox of management education

Abstract Practicing managers, the users and consumers of management theory, are arguably not applying theories as they were originally conceived. They are using an ontologically based version of theory that is only tenuously related to its epistemological origins. Turning Lewin’s famous dictum on its head, we argue that for the management practitioner there really is nothing so good as a practical theory.

Discourses of contradiction A postcolonial analysis of Muslim women and the veil

Drawing upon postcolonial and postcolonial feminist lenses, this study critically analyzes the discourses, evident in the popular press, that serve to construct identities associated with veil-wearing Muslim women. Through print and digital media articles from January 2009 to December 2011, we trace the discursive character of the veil-wearing Muslim woman through conversations before, during, and after Bill 94 was tabled by the Quebec government. Concerned not only with the Western construction of the “other,” we attempted to provide the space necessary to hear Muslim women. Considerable focus was placed on teasing out interviews with Muslim women or responses by Muslim women. Findings suggest that several contradictions exist in terms of Western constructions and how Muslim women in Canada construct their own identities. At the center of these contradictions lies the symbolism of the veil, representing oppression and submission to some and empowerment and resistance to others.

Surfacing the voices of the other: female entrepreneurs in Manila

A distinct demarcation between conventional opportunity entrepreneurs and variously defined necessity entrepreneurs exists in the developmental entrepreneurship literature. We argue that these distinctions are problematic and have the potential to limit necessity entrepreneurs through policy and practice aimed at those who are most often constructed as perpetually poor, unwilling, and poor contributors to development. Further, this study demonstrates that this discursively created necessity entrepreneur is not reflected in the constructions of the entrepreneurial selves of Filipino women entrepreneurs. Their reasons for entering entrepreneurship are fluid and complex, and include reasons normally reserved for opportunity entrepreneurs, such as pursuing perceived opportunities, resistance to harsh social and economic conditions, and a desire to contribute to economic and social development. The findings speak to the need to challenge taken for granted assumptions and to be mindful of the roles of power and privilege in everyday assumptions.