“INTERACTING” GENDER: GENDERED EMOTIONS AND METAPHORS IN SELF-MANAGING TEAMS 5.1. Introduction: Interaction as a Gendering Process Gendered relations of domination, subordination, and resistance are enacted daily in organizational practice

Gendered relations of domination, subordination, and resistance are enacted daily in organizational practice (Acker, 1990; J. Martin, 1992). All work, including teamwork, involves interaction through which gender relations become produced and reproduced, consented and contested. The main task of this chapter is to examine, using the theoretical framework of gendered processes, the various interaction processes in which members of self-managing teams engaged when working. After exploring the production and reproduction of gender divisions in Chapter 4, this chapter extends the analysis of gender in self-managing teams to the interactive processes that maintain gendered power relations. These gendering processes include the ways in which team members constructed the meaning of emotion displays, used metaphors to describe team interaction and relations, and how they consciously shaped their personas to fit the demands of teamwork.