Aligning Civic and Corporate Leadership with Human Dignity: Activism at the Intersection of Business and Government

Kipper, Knut

doi:10.1007/s10551-015-2917-5

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“…On the other hand, however, the problem of the conception of human dignity itself emerges. For example, Lucas (2015) generally calls workplace dignity a phenomenon that is theoretically distinct from human dignity, while Kipper (2017) emphasizes the role of power imbalance, due to which dignity is not given to part of people. According to him, the violation of dignity arises due to mechanisms ensuring respect and attention for people who find themselves in an unfavorable situation.…”

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The Dilemma of Postmodern Business Ethics: Employee Reification in a Perspective of Preserving Human Dignity

Vveinhardt

2022

Front. Psychol.

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Management practices prevailing in business organizations receive considerable criticism for often treating the employee as one of many resources or an instrument to achieve the organization’s goals. As employee reification has so far been largely investigated in the scientific literature from the perspective of neo-Marxist approach, this article seeks to broaden the discussion by showing how social teaching of the Catholic Church can serve to solve the problem of reification. Although there is no doubt that universal norms of business ethics can serve as protection of the employee dignity from the individual’s reification tendencies, moral relativism operating in postmodern life tends to call into question any universal moral norms. Therefore, this article discusses how responses to challenges posed by moral relativism can be obtained by applying methodological approaches proposed by the neo-Marxist classics Lukács, Honneth, and Catholic Social Teaching. The similarities and differences of these approaches are identified, and attention is also drawn to the possibilities and limitations of their application in business ethics practice. It is also demonstrated how understanding of human dignity and the attitude to a virtue, offered by social teaching of the Catholic Church, broadens the discussion on addressing the dangers posed by the person’s reification in organizations.

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The Dilemma of Postmodern Business Ethics: Employee Reification in a Perspective of Preserving Human Dignity

Vveinhardt

2022

Front. Psychol.

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“…To combat arbitrary domination, Forst (2014: 22) advocates a fundamental “right to justification” based on the maxim that human “autonomy and dignity … consists in being subject to no norms or structures other than those which can be justified towards the individual.” Deriving from the premise that we are entitled to be treated as free and equal individuals and “independent agents of justice” (Forst, 2014: 22), this right to sufficient justification applies whenever our status as such is jeopardised (Forst, 2012: 37, 130; Kipper, 2017a). Universal in scope and reach (Forst, 2012: 2, 57–61, 212, 248), the right to justification entails both the provision and exchange of reasons, thereby encompassing the elements of both justification and legitimation (Forst, 2012: 7, 195).…”

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The Moral Permissibility of Digital Nudging in the Workplace: Reconciling Justification and Legitimation

Ruehle

2023

Bus. Ethics Q.

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Organisations increasingly use digital nudges to influence their workforces’ behaviour without coercion or incentives. This can expose employees to arbitrary domination by infringing on their autonomy through manipulation and indoctrination. Nudges might furthermore give rise to the phenomenon of “organised immaturity.” Adopting a balanced approach between overly optimistic and dystopian standpoints, I propose a framework for determining the moral permissibility of digital nudging in the workplace. In this regard, I argue that not only should organisations provide pre-discursive justification of nudges but they should also ensure that employees can challenge their implementation whenever necessary through legitimation procedures. Building on Rainer Forst’s concept of the right to justification, this article offers a way to combine contract- and deliberation-based theories for addressing questions in business ethics. I further introduce the concept of meta-autonomy as a capacity that employees can acquire to counter threats of arbitrary domination and to mitigate organised immaturity.

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When a Thousand Flowers Bloom: The Human Side of Leadership from the Gestalt Perspective

Akande¹,

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Adewuyi

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Globalization, Human Rights and Populism

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Aligning Civic and Corporate Leadership with Human Dignity: Activism at the Intersection of Business and Government

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The Dilemma of Postmodern Business Ethics: Employee Reification in a Perspective of Preserving Human Dignity

The Dilemma of Postmodern Business Ethics: Employee Reification in a Perspective of Preserving Human Dignity

The Moral Permissibility of Digital Nudging in the Workplace: Reconciling Justification and Legitimation

When a Thousand Flowers Bloom: The Human Side of Leadership from the Gestalt Perspective

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