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wir möchten Sie herzlich zum Vortrag von Prof. Gerlinde Mautner (WU, Wien) und Prof. Mark Learmonth (Durham Business School, UK) einladen.</p>
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<b><i>Abstract</i></b></p>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Talking about organizational <i>leadership</i> seems to predispose us to talk in highly positive terms – even in academic scholarship. For example, the three most downloaded articles in the field’s top journal,
<i>Leadership Quarterly,</i> are currently entitled: “Servant leadership …”, “Ethical leadership…” and “Authentic leadership …” respectively (</span><a href="https://www.journals.elsevier.com/the-leadership-quarterly%20on%201st%20February%202021" style="color:rgb(5,99,193); text-decoration:underline"><span lang="EN-GB">https://www.journals.elsevier.com/the-leadership-quarterly
on 1st February 2021</span></a><span lang="EN-GB">); a surprise perhaps given what might be assumed to be the relatively disinterested voice of scholarship. In our talk, we explore questions about the positivity of the language of
<i>leadership</i>: </span></p>
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</span></span></span><span lang="EN-GB">“WHY is this positive language used?” </span>
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</span></span></span><span lang="EN-GB">“What does it DO?” </span></p>
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</span></span></span><span lang="EN-GB">“Is it something to be welcomed as aspirational – or is it a camouflage for the realities of corporate life?”
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<span lang="EN-GB">In terms of data, we use a corpus of all articles published in
<i>Administrative Science Quarterly</i> (ASQ) from its first edition in 1956 to the end of 2018, supplemented by material from other journal articles, business school websites, job advertisements, and other relevant sources. We also consider closely related
social actor labels, particularly <i>manager</i> and <i>CEO</i>. The background for our analysis is the rise of neoliberalism and the observation that in the context of organizational discourse, many other terms with positive cultural associations are increasingly
being preferred over those previously used with more negative connotation. For instance, terms like
<i>challenge</i> are now favoured over <i>problem</i>, just as <i>team member</i> is increasingly chosen over
<i>staff member</i>. In the process, we argue that power asymmetries are increasingly being glossed over to the benefit of society’s elites.</span></p>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB">Mark <span style="">Learmonth</span></span></b><span lang="EN-GB">, Professor of Organisation Studies at Durham Business School (UK), spent the first 17 years of his career in management posts within the British National Health Service.
Prior to taking up his post in Durham he has worked at the universities of Nottingham and York. Mark’s research interests include management discourse and methodological debates, and he has published widely on leadership (see, for example, Learmonth &
<span style="">Morrell, </span>2019, </span><a href="https://www.dur.ac.uk/research/directory/staff/?mode=pdetail&id=9121&sid=9121&pdetail=122677" target="_BLANK" style="color:rgb(5,99,193); text-decoration:underline"><i><span lang="EN-GB">Critical Perspectives
on <span style="">Leadership:The</span> Language of Corporate Power</span></i></a>
<span lang="EN-GB">[</span><span lang="EN-US">Routledge] and </span><span lang="EN-GB">Ford, Harding & Learmonth, 2008, </span><a href="https://www.dur.ac.uk/research/directory/staff/?mode=pdetail&id=9121&sid=9121&pdetail=66328" target="_BLANK" style="color:rgb(5,99,193); text-decoration:underline"><i><span lang="EN-US">Leadership
<span style="">as</span> <span style="">identity</span>: <span style="">constructions</span>
<span style="">and</span> <span style="">deconstructions</span></span></i></a><span lang="EN-US">. [Palgrave]).</span></p>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB">Gerlinde Mautner</span></b><span lang="EN-GB">, Professor of English Business Communication at WU, is an applied linguist pursuing research interests at the interface of language and business. In
<i>Language and the Market Society</i> (Routledge, 2010) she discusses the linguistic impact of marketization, and in
<i>Discourse and Management</i> (Palgrave, 2016) she explores key management themes through the lens of language. Another strand of her research focuses on methodological questions, specifically those that arise when combining discourse analysis with corpus
linguistics.</span></p>
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