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Item Details
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LEADERSHIP DISCOURSE AT WORK
INTERACTIONS OF HUMOUR, GENDER AND WORKPLACE CULTURE |
| By: |
Stephanie Schnurr |
| Format: |
Electronic book text |
| List price:
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£50.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0230594697 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780230594692 |
| Publisher: |
PALGRAVE MACMILLAN |
| Pub. date: |
23 December, 2008 |
| Description: |
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. |
| Synopsis: |
In spite of recent trends in leadership research towards more discourse oriented approaches, the intricate relationship between leadership and discourse remains surprisingly under-researched. Drawing on authentic discourse data the author focuses on humour -- a particularly versatile discursive strategy. She illustrates that an analysis of leadership discourse may offer interesting new insights into the complexities of leadership performance. Far from being a superfluous discursive strategy employed to distract from the transactional aspects of workplace talk, humour performs a range of important functions in a workplace context. And due to its versatile nature it is particularly suitable to express and respond to the complexities of leadership performance. An in-depth analysis of the ways in which leaders use humour in their everyday workplace interactions demonstrates how the discursive performance of leadership is influenced by the leaders' immediate working group., the culture of their workplace, and stereotypical expectations of how women and men should behave in the workplace. |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Palgrave Macmillan |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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