Women managers in meetings. Ways of expression power

Abstract

Power, a widely studied concept, constructs identities, behavior, knowledge, and discourse. Operating through language, hegemony is taken for granted, and the discourses it creates become the norms in institutions. Power has been analyzed in a variety of organizations – legal, educational, medical, and economic. This paper uses the data transcribed from a meeting held in a medium-sized Romanian company that sells building materials, with the aim of identifying the ways in which the woman manager running the company expresses power.