Speaking as Women Leaders: Meetings in Middle Eastern and Western Contexts

by Haleema Al A'Ali and Judith Baxter

This book offers new insights on how senior business women in Middle Eastern and Western companies use language for effective leadership in their respective management meetings. The book explores six case studies of women leaders, three in UK companies and three in a Bahraini company. The authors analyse meeting and transcript data to show that, in both cultural contexts, the women negotiate a range of gendered discourses such as 'hierarchy and status'...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1137506202
• ISBN13: 9781137506207
• Release Date: October 2016
• Publisher: Palgrave Pivot
• Length: 152 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.2" x 8.5"