S/S/56. Van Maanen (1995) once described organisation studies as a ‘garden of a thousand flowers’ (see also: Van de Ven, 1999). Using the introductory chapter of Alvesson and Due Billing (1997), and your wider knowledge of the ‘debate’, consider whether the same could be said for ‘management and gender’? Identify the dominant trends, and perspectives within ‘the garden’. What are their similarities and differences?

Within the complex web of organisational studies, gender and management I have noted some dominant trends which I feel have had a profound effect on gender with regard to management discourse. I perceive the dominant trends as including; hierarchy, patriarchy, the impacts of various organisational cultures and gendered work. The argument is critisizes both liberal and radical feminism.