Managerial discourses: words speak louder than actions?

Discourse plays an important role in the management process. However, academics and practicing managers often undervalue and take for granted the subordination of discourse over action in management. Hence the need for an alternative conceptualization of the role and status of discourse in management. In doing this, false assumptions about discourse and action are addressed. In addition, the analysis of managerial roles points to management as a discursive activity.
Introduction Within organisations, and more generally in western cultures as a whole, dialogue, discussion and debate are depicted as the 'poor relations' of action. Such inferiority is signalled by commonplace [...]