Leadership Discourse at Work: Interactions of Humour, Gender and Workplace Culture

by Stephanie Schnurr

Book Overview

Employing a discourse analytical approach this book focuses on the under-researched strategy of humour to illustrate how discursive performances of leadership are influenced by gender and workplace culture. Far from being a superfluous strategy that distracts from business, humour performs a myriad of important functions in the workplace context.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0230201806
• ISBN13: 9780230201804
• Release Date: December 2008
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 161 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.4" x 8.5"