The feminine in management consulting: power, emotion and values in consulting interactions

This book presents a 'feminine' discourse of consulting that offers resourcesfor study and for practice but also explanatory power regarding the negative discourse that consultants attract. Uniquely, consulting interaction is studied as it happens, rather than through post hoc interviews. It provides unique historical review of advice givers of the past. It consults conceptualized as adiscursive practice and series of discourses of consulting identified. It features Use of Critical Discourse Analysis providing a case study of applying this powerful tool. Recent debates on the growth and effectiveness consulting especially in the public sector are offered a new lens through insider research by a consultant.Through 'live' material from consulting practice and an historical review of advice-giving to pre-modern leaders, this book uncovers a distinctive 'feminine' discourse of management consulting. This new lens challengescurrent literature on management consulting that relies on established (masculine) images. ÍNDICE: - List of Tables and Figures - Acknowledgements - Introduction - -PART I: CONSULTING: EXPLORING THE TERRAIN - Consultants, Confidantes and Consorts: A Genealogy of Consulting and Advice-giving to Organizational Leaders - Images of Consulting: What Currently shapes How We See Consulting and How it Works? - Consulting as a Discursive Practice - - PART II: DISCOURSE ANALYSIS OFCONSULTING INTERACTIONS - Researching Consulting Interactions: From Process Ontology to Critical Discourse Analysis - Women Consultants in Action: CriticalDiscourse Analysis of b Liveb Consulting Interaction - Womenb s Stories aboutConsulting: Critical Discourse Analysis of Reflective Material - PART III: MAKING SENSE - What is Going on in Consulting Interactions?: Exploring Meta-themes of Power, Emotion and Values - Femininities and Consulting: (Re-)animating a b Feminineb Discourse of Consulting - Towards a b Critical Consultingb Practice: The Contribution of a b Feminineb Discourse of Consulting - - NOTES - REFERENCES - INDEX -

• ISBN: 978-0-230-20716-5
• Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 272
• Fecha Publicación: 28/11/2008
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés