Leadership and Language Games

Marturano, Antonio; Wood, Martin; Gosling, Jonathan

doi:10.5840/pom20109118

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“…In the qualitative analysis, we incorporated the notion of discourse and coded recurrent discursive practices. This way we combined quantitative and qualitative data analysis to observe leadership processes in decision formation (Marturano, Wood, & Gosling, 2010).…”

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confidence: 99%

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Leadership Construction in Intra-Asian English as Lingua Franca Decision-Making Meetings

Du-Babcock

Tanaka

2016

International Journal of Business Communication

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In Asia, the English language serves as a lingua franca to connect people from various backgrounds for managerial synergy. In this study, we investigate leadership in a setting where English as lingua franca is used among Asian business professionals. Employing the notion of discourse, we use quantitative and qualitative analyses to identify how leadership emerges in meetings with multicultural participants, and how different types of leadership affect these decision-making meetings. We conclude that linguistic and contextual factors discursively construct different styles of leadership, and that these leadership styles lead to starkly different team outcomes. The overall result indicates that a business meeting is not a logical process leading to a rational decision, but rather an organic mix of contextual, linguistic, and leadership factors when English as lingua franca is used in multicultural participants.

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“…From this analysis, we coded the meeting dialogs and categorized them into one of three leadership styles identified by Aritz and Walker (2014). Adopting both quantitative and qualitative data analysis allowed us to observe the processes of leadership in decision formation (Marturano et al, 2010).…”

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Leadership Construction in Intra-Asian English as Lingua Franca Decision-Making Meetings

Du-Babcock

Tanaka

2016

International Journal of Business Communication

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“…Studies have considered leadership itself as a specific language or behavior akin to language (Conger, 1991;Marturano et al, 2010;Pondy et al, 1989). Pondy et al (1989) view leadership as "a language game."…”

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Multilingual and multicultural managers’ effects on team performance: insights from professional football teams

Szymanski

Alon

Kalra

2021

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Purpose In this study, micro-foundations of strategy as the theoretical framework to study the effect of managers’ individual characteristics on multinational team performance are adopted. In particular, the purpose of this paper is to study managers’ multilingual communication abilities and multicultural background, and their role in, respectively, effectively reconfiguring team human assets and sensing cognitively distant opportunities and threats. Design/methodology/approach This study uses national football teams competing in national and international competitions and their coaches’ characteristics as the data set to test the theory. Using random coefficient modeling and ordinary least square regression, this paper analyzes two samples of 222 and 79 teams and found that both these characteristics contribute to team performance; however, their effects differ depending on the team environment. Findings Multicultural managers contribute positively to team performance only when the team is operating in a highly diverse environment, their effect is not statistically significant in homogeneous environments. In less diverse environments, it is the multilingual manager who can improve team performance through more efficient communication and greater effects of leadership on the team. Originality/value Managers’ characteristics such as their multicultural background and multilingual capabilities affect team performance. In particular, these effects come into play in highly diverse and international settings. Micro-foundation literature is advised to focus on the internationalization and multicultural backgrounds of managers as a precursor for organizational international performance.

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“…(MacBeath, 2003, p. 1) What was needed, I decided, in designing and teaching the course, was an approach which more effectively synthesized theory and practice, which was capable of incorporating the richness of case studies, anecdotes and common sense reflections, and which was at the same time capable of providing a deeper understandingwhat Zaccaro and Horn term a 'leadership theory-practice symbioses ' (2003, p. 770). This led me to an alternative approach to studying leadership, influenced by some of those who had drawn on the later philosophy of Wittgenstein, such as Pondy (1978), Simkins (2005), Kelly (2008), and Marturano et al (2010). One reason for adopting such an approach is expressed by Marturano et al who considered that leadership theories typically lack an epistemological basis and arise from largely empirical studies.…”

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Reviewing school leadership: from psychology to philosophy

Newman

2020

International Journal of Leadership in Education

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Arguably the notion of the school leader as the all-important person in school improvement in England still holds sway, despite the development of a huge range of leadership theories and perspectives which suggest a broader contextual approach may be appropriate. Reflecting on the development of a MA course in leadership and management, this paper argues that a philosophical approach based on the later work of Wittgenstein is helpful. The starting point for the approach used here is Wittgenstein's notion of language-games, which gives recognition to the many different views, descriptions, definitions, and theories of leadership. Informed by Wittgenstein's wider argument, it develops by bringing in the notions of family resemblance, social rules, and forms of life to suggest that Wittgenstein's account of meaning is able to move us towards a better understanding of the range of views about school leadership.

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Leadership and Language Games

Cited by 10 publications

References 29 publications

Leadership Construction in Intra-Asian English as Lingua Franca Decision-Making Meetings

Leadership Construction in Intra-Asian English as Lingua Franca Decision-Making Meetings

Multilingual and multicultural managers’ effects on team performance: insights from professional football teams

Reviewing school leadership: from psychology to philosophy

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