Author : S. Schnurr
Publisher : Springer
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 12,92 MB
Release : 2008-12-23
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0230594697
Employing a discourse analytical approach this book focuses on the under-researched strategy of humour to illustrate how discursive performances of leadership are influenced by gender and workplace culture. Far from being a superfluous strategy that distracts from business, humour performs a myriad of important functions in the workplace context.
Author : Małgorzata Chałupnik
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 21,59 MB
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ISBN : 3031547225
Author : Simon Western
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 19,26 MB
Release : 2013-09-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 144629420X
When Simon Western's Leadership text first published, it received rave reviews from students, academics and practising leaders and managers all over the world. Written in an accessible style, the book challenges the notion of the individual or hero leader. Western develops the idea of leadership as a distributed process and provides a new framework for understanding and implementing this. Part one deconstructs leadership, providing a critical review and analysis of the key debates within leadership; part two reconstructs leadership, revealing the three dominant discourses of the Controller, Therapist and Messiah, and Eco-leadership discourse. Eco-leadership captures new leadership ideas and practices for twenty-first century organizations. This widely anticipated second edition has been updated in line with recent events and the latest practice and research, with end of chapter questions encouraging reflection on key issues. This insightful and inspiring text draws on Western's diverse consulting experience, combining theory and practice to offer insights into the real challenges facing leaders today. It is ideal reading for MBA and postgraduate students of Leadership, OB and HRM as well as practising managers and leaders. An electronic inspection copy is available for instructors.
Author : Bert A. Spector
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 21,42 MB
Release : 2016-07-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 131671246X
In a wide-ranging and provocative new study, Bert A. Spector provides a critical analysis of past and present theories of leadership. Spector asserts that our perception of leadership influences who we vote for, who we hire and promote, and ultimately, who we choose to grant our authority to. Focusing on leadership in discourse, the book sets out to explore how the notion of leadership has been articulated, studied and debated by academics, but also by practitioners, journalists, and others who seek to influence the thoughts of others. Paying particular attention to the social, economic, political, intellectual and historical forces that have helped shape the discussion, Discourse on Leadership offers an insightful historiography of leadership as a concept and considers how our understanding of it continues to evolve.
Author : Janet Holmes
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 42,61 MB
Release : 2011-12-05
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0190208023
This is the first book in the field of workplace discourse to examine the relationships among leadership, ethnicity, and language use. Taking a social constructionist approach to the ways in which leadership is enacted through discourse, Leadership, Discourse, and Ethnicity problematizes the concept of ethnicity and demonstrates the importance of context-particularly the community of practice-in determining what counts as relevant in the analysis of ethnicity. The authors analyse everyday workplace interactions supplemented by interview data to examine the ways in which workplace leaders use language to achieve their transactional and relational goals in contrasting "ethnicized" contexts, two of which are Maori and two European/Pakeha. Their analysis pays special attention to the roles of ethnic values, beliefs and orientations in talk.
Author : Simon Western
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 457 pages
File Size : 41,72 MB
Release : 2019-03-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1526478544
A much loved, highly regarded Leadership text which provides a refreshing counterpoint to traditional textbooks. It is not a typical textbook but rather presents a new framework for understanding leadership.
Author : Cornelia Ilie
Publisher : Springer
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 23,83 MB
Release : 2017-08-31
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9811043191
This multidisciplinary volume brings together wide-ranging empirical research that goes behind the scenes of diverse organizations dealing with business, politics, law, media, education, and sports to unravel stereotypes of discursive leadership practices as they unfold in situ. It includes contributions that explore how leadership discourse is impacted by increasing pressures of “glocalization” (the need to communicate across cultures and languages), “mediatization” (leaving ubiquitous digital traces), standardization (with quality management programmes negotiating organizational procedures), mobility (endless fast-paced long distance synchronization) and acceleration (permanent co-adaption and change). The discussion of purposefully chosen case studies moves beyond questions of who is a leader and what leaders do, to how leadership stereotypes are being challenged in various communities of practice, and thereby making change possible. Cross-cultural and interdisciplinary approaches are used to get deeper insights into the competing, multi-voiced, controversial and complex identities and relationships enacted in leadership discourse practices.
Author : Janet Holmes
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 24,32 MB
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1405178450
Gendered Talk at Work examines how women and men negotiate their gender identities as well as their professional roles in everyday workplace communication. written accessibly by one of the field’s foremost researchers explores the ways in which gender contributes to the interpretation of meaning in workplace interaction uses original and insightfully analyzed data to focus on the ways in which both women and men draw on gendered discourse resources to enact a range of workplace roles illustrates how a qualitative analysis of workplace discourse can throw light on the many ways in which workplace discourse provides a resource for constructing gender identity as one component of our complex socio-cultural identity
Author : Stephanie Schnurr
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 28,80 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0415584817
This book will provide a comprehensive overview of the field of professional communication from an applied linguistics perspective and introduce core concepts and approaches to this key field of academic enquiry.
Author : Bernadette Vine
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 47,10 MB
Release : 2020-06-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1108585434
Assuming no prior linguistics background, this introductory textbook summarises key topics and issues from workplace discourse research in a clear and accessible manner. The topics covered include how people issue directives, use humour and social talk, and how they manage conflict and disagreement. The role of language in the enactment of identity is also explored, in particular leadership, gender, and cultural identity, along with the implications and applications of workplace research for training and communications skills development. Over 160 international examples are provided as illustration, which come from a wide range of workplace settings, countries and languages. The examples focus on authentic spoken discourse, to demonstrate how theory captures the patterns found in everyday interaction. Introducing Language in the Workplace provides an excellent up-to-date resource for linguistics courses as well as other courses that cover workplace discourse, such as business communication or management studies.
