Between the Generalized and the Concrete Other: Approaching Organizational Ethics from Feminist Perspectives

Haas, Tanni; Deetz, Stanley

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“…It would seem to be in the company's best interest to make maternity leaves automatic rights that have streamlined and unambiguous processes as a baseline from which case-by-case negotiations, as suggested in the first practical recommendation, could take place. These first two proposals address the needs and interests of both concrete and universal others in feminist ethical approaches (see Haas & Deetz, 2000) while paving the way for the third implication.…”

Section: Practical Applicationsmentioning

confidence: 98%

Struggling with Maternity Leave Policies and Practices: A Poststructuralist Feminist Analysis of Gendered Organizing

Buzzanell¹,

Liu²

2005

Journal of Applied Communication Research

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Section: Practical Applicationsmentioning

confidence: 98%

Struggling with Maternity Leave Policies and Practices: A Poststructuralist Feminist Analysis of Gendered Organizing

Buzzanell¹,

Liu²

2005

Journal of Applied Communication Research

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“…When they lose their jobs, their home life is affected socially, emotionally, and economically. Current discussions in critical management studies, organizational ecology, feminist organizing, and critical organizational scholarship, highlight the importance of including the voices of all organizational members for the purpose of empowerment and transformation (Allen 2005;Ashcraft 2005;Bulis and Stout 2000;Buzzanell 2000;Cheney 1995;Deetz 2000;Dougherty 1999;Haas and Deetz 2000). To deny the interdependence of the public/work and private/home life during times of job loss renders the lived experiences of the workers mute, ultimately leading to feelings of invisibility and being valueless that the workers articulate.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

The discursive construction of care when there is no care to be found: Organizational life (re)framed by those on the socio‐economic margins facing job loss

Gunn

2011

Culture and Organization

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At the same time that low-wage workers in the changing US health care systems are facing under-and unemployment, organizational scholars are engaged in a healthy discussion of the impact of layoffs on various organizational stakeholders. Through a feminist ethics lens and an ethnographic in-depth interviewing methodology, this case study expands that work by exploring how 55 low-wage workers in a state mental health hospital facing closure make sense of their experiences of impending job loss. The collected narratives illuminate how the workers interpret the (un)ethical behaviors of the organizational decision makers and how the workers author a (re)framing of their experiences through an attention to care. Explicated from the workers' descriptions is a perspective about standpoint and open communication that offers organizational scholars and practitioners a foundation from which to expand approaches to communicating with workers in an environment of organizational closure.

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“…Benhabib seeks a kind of "interactive universalism," which draws on Habermas and Peirce but provides a greater opportunity for feminist critique to redefine the boundaries of the public sphere. Where Habermas suggests that one first assume the generalized (universalistic) standpoint, followed by an assumption about the standpoint of the concrete other, Benhabib urges one simultaneously to assume the standpoints of both the concrete and generalized other (Benhabib, 1992;Haas & Deetz, 2000). This may be accomplished by engaging in a "moral conversation" in which the goal is not to reach a rationally motivated consensus but rather to demonstrate the willingness and readiness to seek understanding with the other in an open and reflexive manner.…”

Section: Feminist Refinements: Benhabib's Gendered Discoursementioning

confidence: 98%

“…The moral self is conceptualized as disembedded and disembodied (Haas & Deetz, 2000). For women, this separation has had the effect of removing them, their perspectives, and their interests from most of the discussion of politics and philosophy.…”

Section: Feminist Refinements: Benhabib's Gendered Discoursementioning

confidence: 99%

Repositioning the Ethical Imperative

Zanetti

2004

The American Review of Public Administration

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This article explores the dimensions of an ethical framework for administrators based on the philosophical premises of critical theory. The goal of critical theory is to view the world dialectically and have a practical intent-to participate in revealing the socially constructed nature of the world, to help affirm that reified social constructs are not immutable, and then to work to transform society as the expression of an emancipatory vision. An important component of this view is the refusal to be bound by Recht, the system of law constructed by the status quo to serve dominant interests. The author examines the critical theories of Horkheimer, Habermas, Benhabib and the ethical theory of Margaret Urban Walker to begin construction of a critical-ethical guideline for administrators and introduces the idea of critical theory-based practitioners as "tempered radicals. "We are discussing no small matter, but how we ought to live. -SocratesLike much about the field of public administration, there is no universal agreement about what constitutes the proper ethic for the administrator. Trustee, delegate, interpreter, discretionist, administrative rationalist, or citizen-administrator are just some of the descriptions of the appropriate roles for administrators. Although these various conceptions are, at times, incompatible with one another, they are not necessarily incommensurable, as all offer alternatives that utilize a common currency-an acceptance of the legitimacy of some form of the liberal democratic state.But how do we discuss alternative conceptions of public administrative theory, particularly those that stress the more substantively egalitarian rather than liberal formulations? This article explores possibilities through the lens of critical theory, offering the beginnings of an ethic that connects public and private interests in a manner that is philosophically distinct from other ethical approaches used in the field to date.

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Between the Generalized and the Concrete Other: Approaching Organizational Ethics from Feminist Perspectives

Cited by 18 publications

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Struggling with Maternity Leave Policies and Practices: A Poststructuralist Feminist Analysis of Gendered Organizing

Struggling with Maternity Leave Policies and Practices: A Poststructuralist Feminist Analysis of Gendered Organizing

The discursive construction of care when there is no care to be found: Organizational life (re)framed by those on the socio‐economic margins facing job loss

Repositioning the Ethical Imperative

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