Overview

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.

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Author:   Cornelia Ilie ,  Stephanie Schnurr
Publisher:   Springer Verlag, Singapore
Imprint:   Springer Verlag, Singapore
Edition:   Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2017
Weight:   0.599kg
ISBN:  

9789811351051

ISBN 10:   9811351058
Pages:   270
Publication Date:   12 December 2018
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Introduction Cornelia Ilie and Stephanie Schnurr.- Chapter 2. Leadership and change management: Examining gender, cultural and “hero leader” stereotypes Janet Holmes.- Chapter 3. Taking the (heroic) leader out of leadership. The in situ practice of distributed leadership in decision-making talk Jonathan Clifton.- Chapter 4. Leaders in times of change: Stereotypes and counter-stereotypes of leadership discourse Cornelia Ilie.- Chapter 5. Leadership and culture: When stereotypes meet actual workplace practice Stephanie Schnurr, Angela Chan, Joelle Loew and Olga Zayts.- Chapter 6. Exploring leadership conceptualizations in semi-structured interviews from multiple perspectives Kevin Knight.- Chapter 7. Developing distributed leadership: Leadership emergence in a sporting context Nick Wilson.- Chapter 8. Freeing women political leaders from their gender stereotypes?: Reading UK newspaper texts against the grain Judith Baxter.- Chapter 9. Cracking the concrete ceiling in male-dominated societies: A tale of three “Presidentas” Diana Boxer, Lennie M. Jones & Florencia Cortés-Conde.– Chapter 10. Exploring leadership communication in the United Arab Emirates: Issues of culture and gender Catherine Nickerson and Valerie Priscilla Goby.- Chapter 11. Between performed persona and assigned identity categories: Stereotype as identity resource for Japanese business women in leadership positions Momoko Nakamura.

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Cornelia Ilie is Professor of Linguistics and Rhetoric, Malmö University, Sweden Stephanie Schnurr is Associate Professor at the Centre for Applied Linguistics, The University of Warwick, UK

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