Language and Culture at Work provides an overview of the complex role that culture plays in workplace contexts. Eight chapters cover the core aspects of culture at work, comprising:

• Face and politeness
• Decision making
• Leadership
• Identity
• Gender
• Work-life balance

The authors draw on a significant corpus of authentic workplace data collected in numerous professional and medical settings involving participants from a variety of...

Language and Culture at Work provides an overview of the complex role that culture plays in workplace contexts. Eight chapters cover the core aspects of culture at work, comprising:

• Face and politeness
• Decision making
• Leadership
• Identity
• Gender
• Work-life balance

The authors draw on a significant corpus of authentic workplace data collected in numerous professional and medical settings involving participants from a variety of...

This collection provides a kaleidoscopic view of a range of identity struggles in the workplace context. It features twenty-two case studies that present an eclectic mix of workplaces in different socio-cultural contexts. They include, among others, household workers in Peru and Hong Kong, female professionals in India and the UK, social workers in Botswana and on Canadian reserves, tourist guides in Europe and construction workers in New Zealand. The volume addresses important questions on professional competence, group membership, (sometimes competing) expectations, and identity boundaries....

Gathering wide-ranging empirical research, this book goes behind the scenes of organizations in business, politics, law, media, education and sports to unravel stereotypes of discursive leadership practices as they unfold. The discussion of case studies moves beyond who is a leader and what leaders do, to how leadership stereotypes are challenged.