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Book SynopsisElgar Research Agendas outline the future of research in a given area. Leading scholars are given the space to explore their subject in provocative ways, and map out the potential directions of travel. They are relevant but also visionary.
Drawing on the philosophy of existentialism, this thought-provoking Research Agenda questions and encourages deeper ethical thinking about organizational practices during this time of existential crisis. Rather than relying on prescriptive normative ethical theories, it advocates for ethical concerns to be addressed through intersubjective encounters.
Chapters engage with diverse philosophical perspectives and illuminate their key ideas through literature, visual arts, and music, bringing forth situated truths that will resonate with and incite the reader to think and act critically to avoid perpetuating dehumanization, precarity, and mindlessness. The Research Agenda will ultimately inspire leaders and scholars to expand, rethink, practice, sustain, and transform organizations towards a future of flourishing for all stakeholders.
Integrating qualitative hermeneutics with existential philosophy, this discerning Research Agenda will offer students and scholars of organization studies, business ethics and leadership a unique perspective on organizational ethics.
Trade Review‘This edited collection reflects important debates in organizational ethics and provides comprehensive, critical, and creative responses that will help move the field forward. With such an innovative approach to the subject, I wholeheartedly recommend this book to all colleagues, whether they are students, scholars or practicing leaders. There are significant insights for all.’ -- Gareth Edwards, University of the West of England, UK
Table of ContentsContents: Preface xvii PART I EXPANDING HORIZONS OF SCHOLARSHIP THROUGH INTERPRETIVE HERMENEUTICS 1 Expanding horizons: mythodology for interpretive scholarship 3 Jen Jones 2 Aesop’s cautionary fables about the demos and leadership 19 Joanne B. Ciulla 3 The ethics of faith and suspicion: reflections with the philosophy of Ricoeur and the fiction of le Carré 33 Leah Tomkins PART II RETHINKING ETHICAL DECISION-MAKING AND ACTION 4 How irony can inform whistleblowing: lessons from Harriet Jacobs 49 Donna Ladkin 5 On bolstering the experience of moral agency: Simone de Beauvoir and ethical decision-making in organizations 63 Helet Botha 6 Giving up the good for the better: Dorothy Day’s ethic of direct action 77 Barbara Jones Denison PART III RESTORING SUBJECTIVITY IN ORGANIZATIONAL OBJECTIFICATION 7 Questioning large corporations: personalism and localism for organizations too big to care 93 Gregory R. Beabout 8 Organizational ethics of Smith and Levinas: sympathy and face countering precarity 107 Ronald C. Arnett 9 Examining “managing a diverse workforce” using critical leadership theory and Fanon’s work can reveal its colonialist practices 121 Jennifer L. S. Chandler PART IV PRACTICING VIRTUE, PROFESSIONAL CIVILITY, AND MINDFULNESS IN ORGANIZATIONS 10 Ethical existential leadership lessons from Flannery O’Connor’s “The Lame Shall Enter First” 135 Janie Harden Fritz 11 “Everything is waiting for you”: a ventriloqual view of organizational ethics, professional civility, and the practice of attention 149 .züm Üçok-Sayrak 12 The integrally mindful organization: creating interspaces for human flourishing 163 Annette M. Holba PART V SUSTAINING ORGANIZATIONS THROUGH SILENCE AND CARE 13 Thomas Merton’s love of silence and the organization of creative responsibility 179 Aaron K. Kerr 14 Grounding sustainable organizations through an ethics of care 191 Danilo Boffa PART VI TRANSFORMING ORGANIZATIONS IN TIMES OF CRISIS 15 Unmasking the problem in a pandemic age: Arendt, Camus, and collective responsibility 207 Rita A. Gardiner 16 The Plague: invitation to transformation in an age of absurdity 221 Brent C. Sleasman Index
