Holmes, J. and Marra, Meredith. (2011) Leadership discourse in a Maori workplace: negotiating gender, ethnicity and leadership at work. Gender and Language, Vol.5 (No.2). pp. 317-342. ISSN 1747-6321

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Abstract

Masculinist gender norms and majority group ethnic norms are always covertly relevant as important systemic characteristics of interaction at work, subtly influencing people's unconscious interpretations of what is considered appropriate in the workplace and influencing evaluations of the ways in which individuals do gender, ethnicity and leadership. Drawing on material from the Wellington Language in the Workplace Project, we focus on a particular case study exemplifying the construction of a complex and hybridised identity in a challenging socio-cultural context. The discourse of a female Māori Managing Director of a commercial organization is analysed to illustrate how she negotiates the complex triple bind of gender, ethnicity and leadership in her everyday talk at work. It is proposed that the analysis of such instances of the effective performance of a hybridised identity may contribute to an increased understanding of the complexities of managing workplace discourse in culturally diverse and gendered institutional contexts.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor > HD28 Management. Industrial Management H Social Sciences > HM Sociology P Language and Literature > P Philology. Linguistics
Divisions:	Faculty of Social Sciences > Centre for Applied Linguistics
Journal or Publication Title:	Gender and Language
Publisher:	Equinox Publishing Ltd.
ISSN:	1747-6321
Date:	2011
Volume:	Vol.5
Number:	No.2
Number of Pages:	26
Page Range:	pp. 317-342
Status:	Not Peer Reviewed
Publication Status:	Published
Access rights to Published version:	Restricted or Subscription Access
URI:	http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/id/eprint/48336

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