Identifying Flexibilities

Trux, Marja-Liisa

doi:10.4018/9781599045641.ch019

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“…It also seems to work differently for men and women: ‘women are interpreted to be “old” already rather early, sometimes when they are just over 40 years of age’ (Jyrkinen and McKie, 2012: 73). Third, questions of race and ethnicity have only recently entered the Finnish discussion on diversity (Trux, 2010). In contrast to more multicultural societies such as the United States or the United Kingdom, Finnish society remains ethnically relatively homogeneous.…”

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Headhunters and the ‘ideal’ executive body

2013

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In this article, we adopt a critical perspective to study how executive search practices reproduce particular understandings of the ‘ideal’ executive body. We show how this disadvantages not only women but also men who are considered not to fit the ‘ideal’, and further demonstrate how search practices are embodied: how aesthetics, the senses and a sensorial way of knowing permeate the practices through which candidates are evaluated. We identify discourses on embodied co-presence, capabilities and voice in search consultants’ talk, and specify how notions of the ‘ideal’ executive body and embodied search practices become intertwined. We offer this contribution to the discussion on the body, gender and management and to research on executive search practice.

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Section: The Studymentioning

confidence: 99%