Escaping the Fantasy Land of Freedom in Organizations: The Contribution of Hannah Arendt

Shymko, Yuliya; Frémeaux, Sandrine

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“…Individualist orientations to understanding freedom have been challenged by numerous authors (Honneth, 2007, 2012; Horgan, 2021; Shymko and Frémeaux, 2022). One alternative is to replace the individual by a collective (the labor movement, collective action, stakeholders, group identity), although that alternative is at risk of suppressing internal differentiation within the collective in order to be able to advance the collective.…”

Section: Twenty-first-century Futures Of Freedom and Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…What does this say for the possibility of enhancing freedom at work, or worker freedom? If we return to Arendt’s (1968) political conception of human freedom as the ability to act in organization, then we are invited to “rethink the value and meaning of work by rehabilitating political action” (Shymko and Frémeaux, 2022: 224). We can see in each setting different forms of rehabilitation that resist (or perhaps fail to resist) the neoliberal “ideological production of the freedom fantasy” (Shymko and Frémeaux, 2022: 219): the generation of solidarity that fosters action (freedom through declarations of support in women’s network blogs; Villesèche et al, 2022); the experience of spontaneity that allows for new possibilities (freedom through moments of fun and happiness in the worker hostel; Crane et al, 2022); and the appeal to the respect and singularity of individuals (failure of freedom through responsibilization of professionals as means of managerial control, see Fleming, 2022).…”

Section: Twenty-first-century Futures Of Freedom and Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Freedom, work and organizations in the 21st century: Freedom for whom and for whose purpose?

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This article critically interrogates the meaning of freedom and its current and potential relationship with social relations in and around work as introduction to this special issue. This interrogation is vital given neoliberalism’s evaluative promise for more individual and corporate freedom, while concurrently limiting the conditions for the experience/expression of freedom of workers. Consequently, there are concerns about working for “private governments”, workers being subject to electronic surveillance, and workers increasingly caught up in structural disadvantages (i.e. precarious work) that contribute to growing unfreedom. Rather than reproducing abstract principles around freedom, this article and special issue advance a contextually sensitive emergence of freedom. We explicate this emergence as (i) alternative experiences of freedom, (ii) alternative conceptions of freedom, and (iii) alternative modes of organizing. To inspire future research, we extend these themes to suggest that treating freedom (i) as pluralist/relational and (ii) as having the capacity for world-making has meaningful implications for how work is organized and for whose benefit. We advocate an explicit turn to non-neoliberal values (e.g. collectivism, solidarity, human dignity, respect, and recognition) to enable more relational versions of freedom that can serve as a basis for freedom as world-making at work and in society.

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Section: Twenty-first-century Futures Of Freedom and Workmentioning

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Section: Twenty-first-century Futures Of Freedom and Workmentioning

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Freedom, work and organizations in the 21st century: Freedom for whom and for whose purpose?

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“…Sua obra é profundamente influenciada por suas experiências, sendo as principais: As Origens do Totalitarismo (1951); Entre o passo e o futuro (1957); A condição humana (1958) e O que é liberdade? (1961) 6 .…”

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Vulnerabilidade em saúde, educação e liberdade: reflexão à luz de Hannah Arendt

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Resumo Objetivo refletir sobre o conceito de vulnerabilidade em saúde à luz dos pressupostos de educação e liberdade de Hannah Arendt. Método estudo teórico-reflexivo cujos resultados foram agrupados em duas categorias: Vulnerabilidade em saúde como condição humana e Educação e liberdade do sujeito em situação de vulnerabilidade. Resultados a vulnerabilidade deve ser reconhecida como traço da condição humana, pois suas dimensões envolvem o sujeito e suas condições de saúde, materiais, socioambientais, culturais e jurídicas. Ao considerar a vulnerabilidade na perspectiva política e conscientizadora, a educação emerge como ferramenta para sobrepujá-las, pois possibilita desenvolver as singularidades dos sujeitos, preparando-os para a responsabilidade com o mundo; propicia superar a alienação; concretiza o aprendizado político e a tomada de decisões. Tudo isso reunido é crucial para suplantar a condição de vulnerabilidade frente às desigualdades existentes no mundo e o respeito à liberdade dos sujeitos. Conclusão e implicações para a prática pensamentos arendtianos guardam relação com vulnerabilidade, pois a conscientização, por meio da educação, é indispensável ao aprimoramento do atual contexto social e político. A busca do ser humano pela liberdade e o encorajamento de suas ações oportunizam a evolução do sujeito no mundo.

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“…This is a somewhat surprising underpinning of work on the psychology of business ethics, as the American Psychological Association (APA) ethical code (a psychologist’s ethical code gold standard) clearly defines the duty of psychologists to respect and protect the dignity of human beings (APA Code, 2017 , Principle E). It is far from evident that organizational interests are aligned with the principle of human dignity, and a more critical engagement with such issues is necessary in the current era of neoliberal capitalism (Shymko & Frémeaux, 2021 ). Accordingly, business ethics has been hijacked too often as a tool for the improvement of organizational performance, based on the (mis)understanding that “more” ethics means better performance (e.g., Goebel & Weißenberger, 2017 ).…”

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Bringing Excitement to Empirical Business Ethics Research: Thoughts on the Future of Business Ethics

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To commemorate 40 years since the founding of the Journal of Business Ethics, the editors-in-chief of the journal have invited the editors to provide commentaries on the future of business ethics. This essay comprises a selection of commentaries aimed at creating dialog around the theme Bringing Excitement to Empirical Business Ethics Research (inspired by the title of the commentary by Babalola and van Gils). These editors, considering the diversity of empirical approaches in business ethics, envisage a future in which quantitative business ethics research is more bold and innovative, as well as reflexive about its techniques, and dialog between quantitative and qualitative research nourishes the enrichment of both. In their commentary, Babalola and van Gils argue that leadership research has stagnated with the use of too narrow a range of perspectives and methods and too many overlapping concepts. They propose that novel insights could be achieved by investigating the lived experience of leadership (through interviews, document analysis, archival data); by focusing on topics of concern to society; by employing different personal, philosophical, or cultural perspectives; and by turning the lens on the heroic leader (through “dark-side” and follower studies). Taking a provocative stance, Bal and Garcia-Lorenzo argue that we need radical voices in current times to enable a better understanding of the psychology underlying ethical transformations. Psychology can support business ethics by not shying away from grander ideas, going beyond the margins of “unethical behaviors harming the organization” and expanding the range of lenses used to studying behavior in context. In the arena of finance and business ethics, Guedhami, Liang, and Shailer emphasize novel data sets and innovative methods. Significantly, they stress that an understanding the intersection of finance and ethics is central to business ethics; financial equality and inclusion are persistent socio-economic and political concerns that are not always framed as ethics issues, yet relevant business policies and practices manifest ethical values. Finally, Charles Cho offers his opinion on the blurry line between the “ethical” versus “social” or “critical” aspects of accounting papers. The Journal of Business Ethics provides fertile ground for innovative, even radical, approaches to quantitative methods (see Zyphur and Pierides in J Bus Ethics 143(1):1–16, 10.1007/s10551-017-3549-8, 2017), as part of a broad goal of ethically reflecting on empirical research.

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Escaping the Fantasy Land of Freedom in Organizations: The Contribution of Hannah Arendt

Cited by 14 publications

References 63 publications

Freedom, work and organizations in the 21st century: Freedom for whom and for whose purpose?

Freedom, work and organizations in the 21st century: Freedom for whom and for whose purpose?

Vulnerabilidade em saúde, educação e liberdade: reflexão à luz de Hannah Arendt

Bringing Excitement to Empirical Business Ethics Research: Thoughts on the Future of Business Ethics

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