Ethics and Organizations provides a rich and valuable overview of an increasingly important issue for management and organizations in contemporary society. Debates about equal opportunities, environmental responsibility, consumer redress, and corporate governance have given ethics a prominent place in the study of organizations in their social and natural environments. Within the organization, new management styles that seek to energize employees by manipulating their beliefs have highlighted the moral-ethical principles at issue in contemporary management. At the same time, debates around postmodernism and relativism have moved ethics to a new centrality in contemporary social theory. This volume addresses the questions that these and other developments raise for the study of management and organizations, from a multidisciplinary perspective. Ethics and Organizations will be invaluable to advanced-level students and academics engaged in analyzing the moral, political, and ethical dimensions of organization theory and organizational practice.

Who Do You Think You Are? Feminism, Work, Ethics and Foucault

Who Do You Think You Are? Feminism, Work, Ethics and Foucault

Who do you think you are? Feminism, work, ethics and foucault
JoannaBrewis

It is a truism to claim that women are disadvantaged in their working lives. The phenomena of vertical segregation and horizontal segregation are noted even in mainstream texts on the workplace (Mullins, 1996: 160–9). The rigours of women's daily working lives are also well documented - for example, the literature on sexual harassment, or material analysing women's managerial experiences. While there is little room for debate around the existence of gendered disadvantage at work, controversy does, nonetheless, surround the appropriate explanations for, and solutions to, this situation. Leaving aside explanations which are outdated and empirically inaccurate (Parsons and Zales, 1956; Tiger and Fox, 1972), ...

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