“…Care perspectives on work and management have received increasing attention in recent years (Delios, 2010; McAllister and Bigley, 2002; Dutton et al , 2006; Sewell and Barker, 2006; Frost, 2003), riding the wave of a renewed interest in the ethical implications of people management (Winstanley and Woodall, 2000). Such perspectives run contrary to a “human capital” view of employees, where organizational members are framed as sets of human resources that market actors trade to organizations in return for monetary payment, stable employment relations, and other benefits (Foss, 2008; Konzelmann et al , 2006). In contrast, care perspectives view individuals as fundamentally relational (Gilligan, 1982), and consider work as holding the potential to humanize and enrich workers, as organizational members attempt to build self‐esteem through their work (McAllister and Bigley, 2002).…”