Description
Book SynopsisManagement and Language explores and develops the image of the manager as one who is aware of, and attends to, the way in which language is used in everyday managerial activity. Much managerial activity is achieved through language and a vital task for any manager is to generate with others an intelligible account of the various feelings that surround the contested issues in the organisation.
Such a process involves reading a context from different perspectives, constructing new meanings, framing the complexities and dilemmas faced into new 'landscapes' of possible future actions, and creating a persuasive argument for those landscapes amongst those who must work in them. For such a process to be conducted successfully a range of abilities and skills become relevant such as storytelling, metaphors and developing arguments.
Management and Language is a timely publication with contributions from eminent academics in the field. This book will be engaging r
Table of Contents
Introduction - David J Holman and Richard Thorpe Management and Language: The Manager as a Practical Author PART ONE: SETTING THE SCENE Managers as Practical Authors - John Shotter and Ann L Cunliffe Everyday Conversations for Action PART TWO: DEVELOPING AND UNDERSTANDING THE STORY Using Narrative and Telling Stories - David M Boje Full of Characters - David J Holman, Jeff Gold and Richard Thorpe Identity and Talk in Practical Authoring Visual Media and the Construction of Meaning - Richard Thorpe and Joep Cornelisson PART THREE: DEVELOPING THE AUTHOR′S POSITION The Leader as a Practical Narrator - Francois Cooren and Gail T Fairhust Leadership as the Art of Translating The Logic of Message Design in Organisational Argument - Shirley Willihnganz, Joy L Hart and Charles A Willard Authoring as a Collaborative Process through Communication - Stanley Deetz PART FOUR: REWRITING THE SCRIPT, RESCRIPTING THE AUTHOR Conversations and the Authoring of Change - Jeffrey D Ford and Laurie W Ford All in a Knot of One Anothers′ Labours - Mike Pedler Action Learning as Joint Practical Authoring A Critical Conversation Between Author Managers and Management Authors - Dorothy Lander and Craig Prichard
