Long description
Discursive Leadership presents a new, groundbreaking way for scholars and graduate students to examine and explore leadership. Differing from a psychological approach to leadership which tries to get inside the heads of leaders and employees, the author focuses on the social or communicative aspects between them. A discursive approach to leadership introduces a host of relatively new ideas and concepts and helps us understand leadership's changing role in organizations.
Review
Citing the well known adage that there are as many definitions of leadership as there are leadership scholars, Fairhurst acknowledges the contributions which psychologists have made to leadership research, before probing the inevitable limitations to their formidable body of work. Fairhurst's work is also thought provoking on the issue of authenticity on the part of leaders. -HUMAN RELATIONS -- Dennis Tourish 20080327 Unusually for an edited book, this text offers strong insights and cogency of argument throughout. In general, in my opinion, it manages to maintain a discursive focus while avoiding the exaggerated claims for the value of its approach that often mar this kind of endeavour. -- Dennis Tourish Human Relations 20080814
Table of contents
- 1: Two Traditions 2: Sequence and Temporal Form 3: Membership Categorization 4: Disciplinary Power 5: Self-Identities, Interpretive Repertoires 6: Narrative Logics 7: Material Mediations 8: Praxis and More Conversation Appendices