This study uses discursive leadership as a framework for analyzing the sensemaking narratives of managers in the Caribbean island of Jamaica. The study analyzes whether or how these Jamaican managers see themselves as acting to develop organizations that are culturally indigenous in the context of dominant national colonial and neocolonial cultural Discourses that seek to marginalize local forms of cultural expression and innovation. Data from the study suggest that asking managers to make sense of the cultural context in which they practice leadership reveals connections between culture, leadership, and communication. The study also reinforces the important role control and agency play in our understanding of leadership.at MICHIGAN STATE UNIV LIBRARIES on June 15, 2015 mcq.sagepub.com Downloaded from

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Postcolonial approaches provide an alternative way of looking at mainstream constructs and processes of organization and organizing. Drawing on the work of literary and cultural studies scholars as well as that of novelists, artists, and activists who resisted colonization and imperialism, postcolonial approaches interrogate the overt and covert colonialist tendencies in contemporary organizations. This entry outlines the insights gained from postcolonial scholarship to resist and challenge structures of neocolonial power in theory as well as in practice. It focuses on hybrid spaces of organization and organizing created in the encounters between the colonizer and the colonized, amplifies voices marginalized by dominant organizational discourses, and points to the ways in which indigenous forms of knowing, being, and speaking can inform understandings of organization in a multicultural world.