书目名称 | Speaking Management | 副标题 | How to Spot Language | 编辑 | Stephen Keith McGrath | 视频video | | 概述 | Explores the philosophy of definition to develop a theory of meaning with the potential to bring the tool called language under human control.Provides a basis for dissolving conflict that does not req | 图书封面 |  | 描述 | .This book identifies ten linguistic traps in our everyday language usage and provides philosophical justification for a method of determining internally consistent definitions of groups of related terms that avoid all ten traps. Various examples and applications of this method are given throughout. .The book demonstrates how the seemingly straightforward matter of our understandings of the meaning of words can have major implications for the exercise of power. This book illustrates how this insight originated from management research into project governance that found lack of agreement on the definition of that term, as well as on many other important management terms. To resolve this, the impacts of evolution, philosophy and linguistics upon our everyday language usage were investigated. The research documented in this book found that the human tool called language works well for describing physical objects but has difficulty producing a common understanding of the meaningof concepts - a problem not restricted to the management field. That field is simply a microcosm that exposes a much more widespread linguistic usage problem affecting our personal, religious and political lives | 出版日期 | Book 2021 | 关键词 | Management; Human Resource Management; The ten linguistic traps; Accountability; Communication | 版次 | 1 | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-2213-7 | isbn_softcover | 978-981-16-2215-1 | isbn_ebook | 978-981-16-2213-7 | copyright | The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapor |
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