Professor David Grant is the Griffith Business School’s Pro Vice Chancellor, holding executive leadership, management and strategic planning responsibilities for the entire Group. Somewhere amongst this he also (longs to) find time to research into the impact of leadership development and change practices on work and organisation. Somewhat unusually, David looks at these issues drawing on discourse theory and analysis. We stole away five minutes of David’s research time(!) to learn a little more…
In what area/s does your research interests lie?
I have an interest in organisational discourse – how language and other symbolic media influence our understanding of, and the practice of, leadership and change at the organisation-wide, group and individual levels.
Are there emerging or ongoing trends in your fields of research?
When organisational discourse was being established as a field [of research] we spent a lot of time on developing the theory around it. In recent years though, there has
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