Discursive Leadership: In Conversation with Leadership Psychology

Discursive Leadership: In Conversation With Leadership Psychology is the first text of its kind to focus on the social and communicative aspects of leadership by drawing from the burgeoning literature in organizational discourse. Author Gail T. Fairhurst shows us leadership's central, reality-shaping role in organizations, complementing the view offered by leadership psychology.

Key Features: Each chapter begins with an ongoing debate presenting important challenges in leadership psychology and illustrates how a discursive approach can join that debate. Chapters are organized around key discourse concepts, each of which casts leadership in a new light. Powerful examples show leadership as it happens, bringing life to the communicative underpinnings of leadership in business and government Leadership psychologists and other discourse scholars respond to the author's proposed "conversation" between them, broadening the debate and introducing fresh insight. The book provides critical summaries at the end of each chapter, and, for novices to discourse analysis, easy-to-reference appendices outline the various forms of organizational discourse analysis.

Intended Audience. This book helps scholars, students, and research-savvy practitioners understand the social and communicative aspects of leadership in a changing workplace brought on by new market economies. It is an excellent text for graduate courses such as Leadership, Rhetoric of Leadership, Interpretive Studies of Organizational Communication, Organizational Communication, and Leadership and Communication in the departments of communication, business and management, psychology, and educational administration.