Downplaying Leadership: Researching How Leaders Talk About Themselves

French, Robert; Simpson, Peter

Abstract

This article identifies the notion of downplaying leadership. While some attempt is made to explore the meaning of this practice, our primary intention is to describe a method and framework for analysing the transcripts of leadership interviews. This method has been developed to help identify how leaders may sometimes use language in research interviews to play down the importance of their own leadership and of leadership in general. © 2006, Sage Publications. All rights reserved.

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Publication Date: Jan 1, 2006
• Journal: Leadership
• Print ISSN: 1742-7150
• Electronic ISSN: 1742-7169
• Publisher: SAGE Publications
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 2
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 469-479
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/1742715006068936
• Keywords: leadership, linguistic analysis, metaphor, research method
• Public URL: https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/1035529
• Publisher URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1742715006068936