Learning empathy through literature

Thexton, Todd; Prasad, Ajnesh; Mills, Albert J.

doi:10.1080/14759551.2019.1569339

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“…Thexton, Prasad, & Mills, 2019), we believe that there is a quite rich and productive engagement with prose fiction in organization studies. As demonstrated by special issues (Land & Śliwa, 2009; Cnossen, Dekker, & Taskin, 2017; Thexton et al, 2019), books (Czarniawska-Joerges & Guillet de Monthoux, 1994; Knights & Willmott, 1999; Ortmann & Schuller 2019) and a host of articles in the field’s relevant journals, it is an engagement that goes beyond ‘merely’ embellishing research accounts with literary quotes or metaphors. Rather than performing an exhaustive review, it behoves us to systematically discuss how organizational concerns are seen to be at work in prose fiction, and whether and how novels are mobilized as ‘allies’ in the furthering of organizational thought.…”

Section: Modes Of Engaging the Novel: Ethical Representative And Aesmentioning

confidence: 95%

“…Educational aims and purposes loom large here, and much has been made of the novel’s potential to teach specific capacities, even skills, to students of organization and management. Czarniawska-Joerges and Guillet de Monthoux’s Good Novels, Better Management (1994) and Knights and Willmott’s Management Lives (1999) are examples here, as are reflections on teaching with novels to foster a ‘care of the self’ (Śliwa, Sørensen, & Cairns, 2015) and to learn empathy (Thexton et al, 2019). Beyond the realm of education, novels are presented as helpful tools to cultivate ‘ambiculturalism’ and bridge cultural divides (Michaelson, 2015b) or to live consciously (Michaelson, 2016).…”

Section: Modes Of Engaging the Novel: Ethical Representative And Aesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Novel Thought: Towards a Literary Study of Organization

Beyes

Costas

Ortmann

2019

Organization Studies

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Novels espouse an epistemological freedom that is beyond even experimental forms of scholarly research and writing. Precisely this freedom makes novels so conducive to thought. Their enduring presence in organization studies demonstrates literary fiction’s power of conveying how things are, might be, or can be thought of; of inventing new ways of seeing; of enabling different vocabularies as well as staging and transmitting specific affects. In this paper, we trace the mutual ‘contamination’ between the novel and organization studies as well as discuss different modes of engaging prose fiction, drawing on Rancière’s ethical, representative and aesthetic regimes of art. With a special nod to Kafka’s novels and stories and also McCarthy’s Satin Island, we outline the contours of a literary study of organization and introduce the special themed section on ‘The Novel and Organization Studies’.

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Section: Modes Of Engaging the Novel: Ethical Representative And Aesmentioning

confidence: 95%

Section: Modes Of Engaging the Novel: Ethical Representative And Aesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Novel Thought: Towards a Literary Study of Organization

Beyes

Costas

Ortmann

2019

Organization Studies

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“…"Em que pesem as diferenças que os singularizam, os domínios da Literatura e da Gestão apresentam áreas em comum, possibilitando que, a partir de uma, no caso a Literatura, se estude e amplie o conhecimento sobre a outra, a Administração" (Pinheiro et al, 2010, p.647). O uso pedagógico da Literatura também pode contribuir na construção do senso de empatia entre estudantes de Administração, como em estudo que buscava produzir empatia pela natureza e promover um comportamento pró-ambiental (Thexton, Prasad, & Mills, 2019).…”

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A literatura feminista de Nísia Floresta na formação em administração

Souza

2021

Rev. Eletr. de Ciênc. Adm.

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Nísia Floresta é reconhecida como a primeira mulher brasileira a escrever sobre os ideais de igualdade desde 1830, e seu trabalho ajudou a constituir o pensamento do século XIX. Em uma época na qual a maioria das mulheres não tinha acesso à educação, essa latino-americana colocou em evidência a invisibilidade feminina. O objetivo do estudo é analisar o uso da literatura feminista de Nísia na formação de administradores. Para isso, realizou-se uma pesquisa bibliográfica sobre a literatura produzida pela escritora. Além disso, foram estabelecidos o contexto sócio-histórico da produção de sua obra e a relação do seu trabalho com outros discursos que circulavam na época. Assim, foi possível apontar alguns temas relevantes que podem ser debatidos com alunos a partir do trabalho de Nísia, como gênero, segregação ocupacional, empreendedorismo feminino, sub-representação feminina, estereótipos de gênero, liderança feminina, dentre outros. Esses temas podem ser discutidos em disciplinas como Teoria das Organizações ou Teoria Geral da Administração, Gestão de Pessoas, Relações de Trabalho, Empreendedorismo, Responsabilidade Social Empresarial e Gestão Pública. Acredita-se que a experiência literária proporcionada pelos escritos de Nísia pode levar ao acesso de novos conhecimentos, produzindo outras percepções e até mudanças na mentalidade de futuros administradores.

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“…To return to the subject of the liberatory impulse in literary management studies, teaching literature as a means of educating more ethical managers relies on the same literary governmentality that Viswanathan (1989) and Hunter (1988) describe. To take one commonplace example, it is regularly argued that the study of literature engenders empathy (see, e.g., Thexton et al, 2019). The complexity of the relations between empathy, reading, and literary text is well beyond the scope of this essay, but the cultivation of empathy in the reader, when understood in the larger context of the history of literary education, is not a “natural” psychological outcome of reading fiction.…”

Section: Literature As Colonial Knowledgementioning

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The limits of literature as liberation: Colonialism, governmentality, and the humanist subject

Greedharry

2020

Management Learning

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Scholars in both the humanities and management remain attached to the idea that literature will set us free. Whether this is because literary text seems unconstrained by our epistemes or reading literature offers a practice through which we will be able to shape ourselves into the people we want to be, many of us understand literature as something that offers us a chance to emancipate ourselves from the regime of knowledge we have now. Nevertheless, as the history of literature as colonial governmentality suggests, literature and literary study have been crucial forms of knowledge-power for creating and maintaining organizational structures as well as producing the willing subjects that make those structures work. This being so, how is it that are we still interested in using literature to make “better” people, whether the people in question are ”better” managers or their subordinates, rather than reorganizing literary study in the contemporary university?

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Learning empathy through literature

Cited by 25 publications

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Novel Thought: Towards a Literary Study of Organization

Novel Thought: Towards a Literary Study of Organization

A literatura feminista de Nísia Floresta na formação em administração

The limits of literature as liberation: Colonialism, governmentality, and the humanist subject

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