Management and language : the manager as a practical author

[edited by] David Holman and Richard Thorpe

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 creatin

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Alternative title:	Management & language
Year of publication:	2003
Other Persons:	Holman, David (contributor) ; Thorpe, Richard (contributor)
Publisher:	London : SAGE
Subject:	Management \| Sprache \| Language
Description of contents:	Table of Contents [external.dandelon.com]

Extent:	Online-Ressource (x, 196 p) ill 25 cm
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and indexes Cover ; Table of Contents ; Introduction - Management and Language: The Manager as a Practical Author ; Part I - Setting the Scene ; 1 - Managers as Practical Authors: Everyday Conversations for Action ; Part II - Developing and Understanding the Story ; 2 - Using Narrative and Telling Stories ; 3 - Full of Characters: Identity and Talk in Practical Authoring ; 4 - Visual Media and the Construction of Meaning ; Part III - Developing the Author's Position ; 5 - The Leader as a Practical Narrator: Leadership as the Art of Translating ; 6 - The Logic of Message Design in Organisational Argument 7 - Authoring as a Collaborative Process Through Communication Part IV - Rewriting the Script, Rescripting the Author ; 8 - Conversations and the Authoring of Change ; 9 - All in a Knot of One Anothers' Labours: Action Learning as Joint Practical Authoring ; 10 - A Critical Conversation B etween Author Managers and Management AUthors; Author Index ; Subject Index Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web Umschlagt.: Management & language
ISBN:	0-7619-6907-1 ; 0-7619-6908-X ; 978-0-7619-6907-5 ; 978-0-85702-646-0 ; 978-0-7619-6907-5
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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