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Talking Yourself Into Work: Insights From Sociolinguistics About Gender And The Employment Interview, Mary Barrett
Talking Yourself Into Work: Insights From Sociolinguistics About Gender And The Employment Interview, Mary Barrett
Faculty of Business - Papers (Archive)
This chapter gives a brief critical history of three phases of linguistic research into gender and language: an essentialist phase, a constructionist phase and a post-structuralist phase. It pays particular attention to the post-structuralist phase, which focuses on how meaning is actively constructed by both parties to a speech event such as a conversation, and the consequences of particular judgements by the more powerful participants, especially in 'gate-keeping' conversations such as job interviews. We pay particular attention to research into naturally occurring conversations, which employs conversation analysis (CA), an interactional sociolinguistics technique. Campbell and Roberts's (2007) CAbased study of intercultural …
Corporate Social Responsibility Attitudes Of Board Directors In Australian Firms: The Role Of Gender And Spiritual Wellbeing, Bita Najafi, Mario Fernando, Alan A. Pomering
Corporate Social Responsibility Attitudes Of Board Directors In Australian Firms: The Role Of Gender And Spiritual Wellbeing, Bita Najafi, Mario Fernando, Alan A. Pomering
Faculty of Business - Papers (Archive)
Corporate social responsibility (CSR) is an important element in portraying corporate identity and building a positive reputation for firms (Cornelius et al. 2007). While at the overall board level, there have been several studies examining the effect of boardlevel attributes on CSR (Dalton et al. 2003; Bonn 2004; McWilliams and Siegel 2000, Bear, Rahman, and Post 2010), at the individual, director level, there has been little research conducted. This study examines individual characteristics of Australian company directors to identify the contributing factors that shape their attitudes to CSR. In particular, in this study, we examine the impact of spiritual wellbeing, …