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Leadership Discourse at Work

Interactions of Humour, Gender and Workplace Culture
By:S. Schnurr
Publisher:Springer Nature
Print ISBN:9781349300013
eText ISBN:9780230594692
Edition:0
Copyright:2009
Format:Page Fidelity

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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.