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

Contents......Page 8
List of Tables......Page 10
List of Figures......Page 11
Acknowledgements......Page 12
Transcription Conventions......Page 13
Leadership......Page 14
Humour......Page 18
Researching leadership discourse at work......Page 24
Collecting data in the workplace......Page 27
Introducing the participating leaders and their workplaces......Page 32
Outline of the content of the book......Page 36
2 Transactional Aspects of Leadership Discourse: Humour and Getting Things Done......Page 39
Transactional leadership behaviours......Page 40
Getting things done......Page 41
The impact of leadership roles: Humour and giving feedback......Page 46
Summary: Humour and transactionally oriented leadership discourse......Page 54
3 The 'Other' Side of Leadership Discourse: Humour and the Performance of Relational Leadership Activities......Page 55
Relational aspects of leadership discourse......Page 56
Reinforcing solidarity and creating a sense of belonging......Page 57
Minimising status differences......Page 62
The 'dark' side of humour......Page 68
Summary: Relational aspects of leadership discourse......Page 72
4 Doing Leadership in Context: The Impact of Working Groups......Page 74
The impact of working groups: Different teasing styles......Page 76
Constructing leader identities through a 'biting' teasing style......Page 77
Constructing leader identities through a 'nipping' teasing style......Page 81
Constructing leader identities through a 'bonding' teasing style......Page 85
Doing leadership differently: Teasing styles and discursive repertoires......Page 88
5 Leadership, Humour and Workplace Culture......Page 92
Defining workplace culture......Page 93
Workplace culture and leadership......Page 94
Bringing aspects of workplace culture to the forefront......Page 95
Enacting organisational values......Page 99
Humour as a means to enact aspects of workplace culture......Page 109
Summary: Leadership, humour and workplace culture......Page 116
6 Balancing Leader and Gender Identities......Page 118
Drawing on gendered speech styles......Page 119
‘Doing masculinity’......Page 122
‘Doing femininity’......Page 129
Gender, workplace culture and communities of practice......Page 135
Bringing gender to the forefront......Page 137
Summary: Leadership discourse and gender......Page 142
7 Conclusion......Page 144
Transactional and relational aspects of leadership discourse......Page 145
Leadership discourse in context: The impact of working groups and workplace culture......Page 146
Leadership discourse and gender......Page 147
Discourse analytical approaches to leadership and other organisational phenomena......Page 148
A note on humour......Page 149
Leadership discourse – where next?......Page 150
Notes......Page 152
References......Page 156
G......Page 173
M......Page 174
W......Page 175