TY - GEN
T1 - A boundary critique of gender in the PROJECT MANAGEMENT BODY OF KNOWLEDGE®
AU - Henning, Pamela Buckle
AU - Thomas, Janice
PY - 2008
Y1 - 2008
N2 - The Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK®) is a document describing appropriate reasoning styles and behaviour for project managers. As a codified "body of knowledge," it acts as a knowledge system for the profession. This codification is tacitly gendered, privileging masculine cognition and action. We examine how this tacit value system has de-legitimized certain feminine contributions to the profession, leaving them outside its boundaries of recommended practice. This boundary critique advocates on behalf of our emancipatory interests in improving the effectiveness of individual project managers, and the success of the profession itself.
AB - The Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK®) is a document describing appropriate reasoning styles and behaviour for project managers. As a codified "body of knowledge," it acts as a knowledge system for the profession. This codification is tacitly gendered, privileging masculine cognition and action. We examine how this tacit value system has de-legitimized certain feminine contributions to the profession, leaving them outside its boundaries of recommended practice. This boundary critique advocates on behalf of our emancipatory interests in improving the effectiveness of individual project managers, and the success of the profession itself.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84865774119&partnerID=8YFLogxK
M3 - Published Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84865774119
SN - 9781605606194
T3 - 52nd Annual Conference of the International Society for the Systems ScInternational Society for the Systems Sciences - 52nd Annual Conference of the International Society for the Systems Sciences 2008
SP - 652
EP - 665
BT - International Society for the Systems Sciences - 52nd Annual Conference of the International Society for the Systems Sciences 2008
T2 - 52nd Annual Conference of the International Society for the Systems Sciences 2008, ISSS 2008
Y2 - 13 July 2008 through 18 July 2008
ER -