Suchergebnisse

Draws attention to contextual variables in the development and
management of safety cultures. Examines the relationship between
corporate culture change and safety management and considers the
implications for safety of the manipulation of values and beliefs as
part of corporate motivation. Considers the extent to which the
development of a safety culture is compatible with the development of a
corporate culture. Examines the following areas, the pursuit of order,
conflict and contradiction, rhetoric and taken‐for‐granted assumptions,
in order to challenge cosmetic approaches to safety management.
Indicates the importance of recognizing that some information defies
data capture and gives attention to the irrational aspects of systems.
Isolates issues for management in the perception and promotion of safety
and offers current examples of good practice.

Examines gender differences in relation to organizational
commitment. It considers the ways in which corporate culture attempts to
seduce employees into commitment via the construction of appearances and
values. The satisfactions which men derive from work appear to make them
more susceptible to the construction of particular frames of
organizational behaviour and, in this sense, commitment can be viewed as
a consensual interpretation of appropriate organizational action. Women,
however, have more ambiguous and conflictual encultured imagery which is
not easily reconciled with male reality definitions. Hence, women
introduce ambivalence into the workplace. This inevitably constitutes a
threat to male consensus and framing of appropriate action. Women′s
action lacks propriety within male frames because women embody
ambivalence. Therefore, by virtue of their mere presence, women threaten
the deconstruction of commitment.

This article seeks to examine the process by which women are incorporated into the military body and considers the extent to which this is achieved both by demonstrating mastery and by the acquisition of the metaphorical penis. Specifically, the article puts forward the view that incorporation into the military body is achieved via a cancellation of the feminine. Women, it is argued, can either be playthings or else quasi men. The point is, and this is the meaning of the title, that either way women are dis-membered to maintain good order. To become a member of the military body, a woman must either conform to the male projection offered her or else acquire a metaphorical 'member' as the price of entry into 'membership'. Women who do conform are assumed into the body and made homologues/homomorphs of men. However, in order to achieve this status of honorary man, they must accept impotence. They are not and do no possess real members. They are rewarded for not re-membering the body.