Holmes, J. (2011) Doing leadership in intercultural workplace contexts. In: Conference at the Research Center on Multilingualism, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany, May 5th, 2011 (Unpublished)

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Abstract

Workplace leaders are required to balance the often conflicting demands of different facets of social identity including gender identity, professional identity and ethnic identity. Adopting a social constructionist framework, and drawing on the extensive research of the Wellington Language in the Workplace Project, this paper examines how leaders in a range of professional organisations manage the conflicts and complexities of reconciling different aspects of their leadership role. The analysis identifies a range of different discourse strategies used to accomplish this balancing act, encompassing both formal and formulaic routines in some contexts, alongside informal pragmatic particles and colloquialisms in others. The analysis is contextualised within a theoretical framework developed by the Language in the Workplace project team.

Item Type:	Conference Item (Lecture)
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
Date:	5 May 2011
Status:	Not Peer Reviewed
Publication Status:	Unpublished
Conference Paper Type:	Lecture
Title of Event:	Conference at the Research Center on Multilingualism
Type of Event:	Conference
Location of Event:	University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
Date(s) of Event:	May 5th, 2011
URI:	http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/id/eprint/48432

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