Purpose – To provide a critical review of existing contributions to gender and change management and in doing so highlight how organizational change needs to be read more readily from a gendered perspective. Design/methodology/approach – This paper argues that gender has received little...

Purpose – To consider Simone De Beauvoir's account of woman as Other, and particularly the appropriation of sexual difference, with reference to the gendered bifurcation and hierarchical organization of change management. Design/methodology/approach – Through a review of relevant managerial...

Purpose – This paper aims to explore the gendered narratives of change management at Marks and Spencer (M&S) and uses them as a lens to consider the gendered nature of the change process itself. Design/methodology/approach – Two extant stories: Sleeping Beauty and the Trojan War are taken,...

Purpose – To present an account of changes in the behaviour of male bank managers who were engaged in action learning groups whose focus was on improving service quality and leadership development. Design/methodology/approach – Qualitative study of the development of group process, and the...

Purpose – This paper seeks to utilize the concept of testicularity put forward by Flannigan‐Saint‐Aubin to explain a shift in the hegemonic masculinities in two organizations which were unusual in being successful in realizing their aims for improvement. Design/methodology/approach – The...

Purpose – To challenge dualistic concepts of masculinity and femininity via a case for understanding gender as a verb. Design/methodology/approach – Using Deleuzian and feminist frameworks, the paper appraises six plateaus of desire and intensity through which gendered identities are...