{"id":5461,"date":"2026-05-13T13:54:47","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T11:54:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hsu-hh.de\/hrm-pol\/?page_id=5461"},"modified":"2026-05-13T13:54:47","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T11:54:47","slug":"gender-relations-in-agile-work-contexts","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.hsu-hh.de\/hrm-pol\/gender-relations-in-agile-work-contexts","title":{"rendered":"Gender relations in agile work contexts\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The aim of this study is to examine&nbsp;how&nbsp;gender inequalities are reproduced in Scrum,&nbsp;a widely used agile method in contemporary organizations.&nbsp;Drawing on Acker&#8217;s (1990) theory of gendered organizations, we conducted fourteen semi-structured interviews with Scrum team members across various roles to examine how&nbsp;gender&nbsp;inequality&nbsp;operates&nbsp;within contemporary self-organizing work structures. Our analysis identifies four interconnected&nbsp;mechanisms&nbsp;through which gender inequalities&nbsp;are&nbsp;embedded in Scrum contexts: temporal intensification that privileges full-time working&nbsp;(\u2018gendered practices\u2019); role descriptions for Product Owner and Scrum Master that systematically value technical skills over relational facilitation&nbsp;(\u2018gendered culture\u2019);&nbsp;self-organized practices that reproduce gendered&nbsp;task allocation&nbsp;(\u2018gendered interactions\u2019); and an&nbsp;impetus&nbsp;ingrained with emphasis on organizational effectiveness and performance orientation that leads to the neglect&nbsp;of&nbsp;gender inequality in Scrum teams&nbsp;(\u2018organizational logic\u2019). This study contributes to the literature on gender inequality in contemporary work forms and agile work.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Selected contributions:<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Rybnikova, I., &amp; Kornau, A. (2023, Juli).\u00a0Gendered agility? An explorative study of (in)equalities\u00a0in Scrum teams.\u00a0European Group\u00a0for\u00a0Organizational Studies (EGOS) Colloquium, Cagliari, Italien.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Rybnikova, I., &amp;\u00a0Kornau, A. (<em>under review<\/em>). Gendered agility? An explorative study of (in)equalities\u00a0in Scrum teams.\u00a0\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The aim of this study is to examine&nbsp;how&nbsp;gender inequalities are reproduced in Scrum,&nbsp;a widely used agile method in contemporary organizations.&nbsp;Drawing on Acker&#8217;s (1990) theory of gendered organizations, we conducted fourteen [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4075,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5461","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","category-forschung"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hsu-hh.de\/hrm-pol\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hsu-hh.de\/hrm-pol\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hsu-hh.de\/hrm-pol\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hsu-hh.de\/hrm-pol\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4075"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hsu-hh.de\/hrm-pol\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5461"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.hsu-hh.de\/hrm-pol\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5461\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5462,"href":"https:\/\/www.hsu-hh.de\/hrm-pol\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5461\/revisions\/5462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hsu-hh.de\/hrm-pol\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hsu-hh.de\/hrm-pol\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hsu-hh.de\/hrm-pol\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}