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Management and Langugage 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 organization. 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 reading to academics and management teachers interested in critical management theory and those generally open to new and different approaches to management. It will also be of relevance to practising managers who wish to have a deeper understanding of how they use language in their everyday work.
A Critical Conversation between Author Managers and Management Authors
A Critical Conversation between Author Managers and Management Authors
Narrator: Craig Prichard and Dorothy Lander invite the reader into the middle of their continuing, intercontinental, critical cross-talk on management practice. This reflexive dialogue is between their identities as ‘management author’ and ‘author manager’ and includes their gendered, managerial and authorial selves. Craig's and Dorothy's dialogue could be said to take Shotter's dialogic constructivism (1993a, 1993b, 1993c, 1997) at its word. By this they attempt what John Van Maanen calls ‘allegorical breaching’ (in reference to Karl Weick's work) in breaching
the generic recognizability of normal organizational theorizing with its relentless summaries of past research, propositional chants, pachyderm-like solemnity and off-the-shelf textual formats (i.e., introduction, hypotheses, methods, findings, ...
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