Gender and Organizational Change: Is it Just a Woman’s Issue?

Abstract: This article examines how different constituents involved
in a process of organizational change, with mergers as one example
of such change, understand, engage, and negotiate this environment;
specifically how they create a sense of professional stability given
the myriad uncertainties that accompany organizational change. The
study on which this article in based reveals how faculty members and
administrators at New University an institution that recently
underwent a merger, engage the idea of gender equity within this
climate of organizational change. This was an involuntary
amalgamation ordered by the Minister of Education, between two
institutions with divergent histories; one a historically white
advantaged university and the other a historically black
disadvantaged institution. How did the constituents of the newlymerged
organization negotiate their competing and in some cases
conflicting interests, cultures, and objectives, to create a new
institution, whose mission aligns national equity objectives?

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