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Discursive Leadership: In Conversation with Leadership Psychology

Author: Gail T Fairhurst

Discursive Leadership: In Conversation with Leadership Psychology presents a new, groundbreaking way for scholars and graduate students to examine and explore leadership. Differing from a psychological approach to leadership which tries to get inside the heads of leaders and employees, author Gail Fairhurst focuses on the social or communicative aspects between them. A discursive approach to leadership introduces a host of relatively new ideas and concepts and helps us understand leadership's changing role in organizations.

Key Features:  

• Compares and contrasts discursive leadership with leadership psychology: This comparison facilitates a clearer definition of discursive leadership.
• Presents new ways to study leadership: By treating each discourse concept as a heuristic device and supporting each concept with examples, new ways to study leadership are introduced by focusing on key concepts from the organizational discourse literature.
• Addresses some key challenges within leadership psychology: Each chapter begins with an ongoing debate in leadership psychology and illustrates how a discursive approach can join that debate. Charimatic leadership, leader-member exchange, authentic leadership are just a few of the examples.
• Offers reactions from leadership psychologists: Leadership psychologists and other discourse scholars respond to the author's proposed 'conversation' between them broadening the debate and introducing new perspectives.
• Provides quick reviews and extended examples: The book includes critical summaries at the end of each chapter and easy-to-referenceappendices.

Intended Audience:  
This book helps scholars, researchers, and practitioners understand the complexities of leadership as it continues to evolve due to such influences as globalization, technology change, and democratization of the workplace. It is also an excellent text for graduate courses such as Leadership; Rhetoric of Leadership; Interpretive Studies of Organizational Communication; Organizational Communication; and Leadership & Communication in the departments of communication, business & management, psychology, and educational administration.

Table of Contents:

Preface     vii
Two Traditions     1
Defining Leadership     4
Defining Discourse     6
The Case for Discursive Leadership     8
The Path Forward     17
Sequence and Temporal Form     23
Act, Interact, Double Interact     25
Turn Taking, Adjacency Pairs     29
Narrative Schemas, Episodes     32
Scripts     38
Script Formulations     41
A Backward Glance-Final Thoughts     44
Membership Categorization     49
Membership Categorization Defined     50
Categories and Organizational Coordination     52
Categories and Organizational Role/Identity     54
Categories, Sensemaking, and Meaning Management     56
Categories and Social Structuring     62
Categories in Task Structuring     66
A Backward Glance-Final Thoughts     71
Disciplinary Power     75
A Primer on Foucault     76
Discipline and Surveillance in Performance Management Technologies     83
Performance Management Governmentality     90
A Backward Glance-Final Thoughts     92
Self-Identities, InterpretativeRepertoires     97
The 'Self' in Leadership Psychology and Discursive Leadership     97
Interpretative Repertoires and Subject Positioning     109
A Backward Glance-Final Thoughts     114
Narrative Logics     119
Leader-Member Exchange Theory     119
The Narrative Basis of LMX     121
A Backward Glance-Final Thoughts     137
Material Mediations     141
Materialist Critiques of Discourse Analysis     143
Actor-Network Theory     144
Rudy Giuliani and September 11, 2001     150
A Backward Glance-Final Thoughts     162
Praxis and More Conversation     167
Discursive Leadership and Praxis     167
Discursive Leadership and Leadership Psychology     174
Leadership Psychologists     175
Discursive Scholars     183
Conclusion     189
Appendixes     191
Conversation Analysis     191
Interaction Analysis     193
Speech Act Schematics     194
Discursive Psychology     195
Foucauldian Analyses     196
Critical Discourse Analysis     197
Narrative Analyses      198
Transcript of Police Rescue     199
References     203
Index     229
About the Author     243

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Key Concepts in Mental Health (Sage Key Concepts Series)

Author: David Pilgrim

Mental health is a highly contentious concept and an area of study which is often bewildering to new student and trainee practitioners. In this context, Key Concepts in Mental Health provides a much-needed guide to the central topics and debates which shape contemporary views about mental health and illness, and which govern the provision of services for people with mental health problems.
The 50 concepts featured in this book are examined through a multidisciplinary lens, drawing together perspectives from sociology, psychology, psychiatry and ethics.