Managerial Control of Employees’ Intercorporeality and the Production of Unethical Relations

Paring, Géraldine; Pezé, Stephan

doi:10.1007/s10551-021-04907-z

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“…The endeavour to strengthen a culture of justice and inclusivity will eventually evolve into a denial of the workplace as a scope for individual agency. The relationship between agency, justice and control, has been addressed in research on what has been referred to as "moral luck" (Nagel, 1979;Williams, 1981;Rolffs, 2023).…”

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“…The research uses the theoretical approach of descriptive phenomenology. The framework has already been applied in numerous management studies (Anosike et al, 2012;Gill, 2014;Resuli and Shehu, 2017;Lehn, 2019;Paring and Pez e, 2022), and it has been prevalent in research on computer-supported cooperative work (CSCW) (Dourish, 2004;Robertson, 2002;Svanaes, 2013;Tenenberg et al, 2016). It presents a qualitative, phenomenological analysis of interviews with office workers in late pandemic home office environments.…”

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Advantages and disadvantages of video conferencing and direct interaction: a conceptual framework for evaluating hybrid work models

Thejls Ziegler,

Lütge

2024

IJOES

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Purpose This study aims to analyse the differences between professional interaction mediated by video conferencing and direct professional interaction. The research identifies diverging interests of office workers for the purpose of addressing work ethical and business ethical issues of professional collaboration, competition, and power in future hybrid work models. Design/methodology/approach Based on 28 qualitative interviews conducted between November 2020 and June 2021, and through the theoretical lens of phenomenology, the study develops explanatory hypotheses conceptualising four basic intentions of professional interaction and their corresponding preferences for video conferences and working on site. Findings The four intentions developed on the basis of the interviews are: the need for physical proximity; the challenge of collective creativity; the will to influence; and control of communication. This conceptual framework qualifies a moral ambivalence of professional interaction. The authors identify a connectivity paradox of professional interaction where the personal dimension remains unarticulated for the purpose of maintaining professionality. This tacit human connectivity is intertwined with latent power relations. This plasticity of both connectivity and power in direct interaction can be diminished by transferring the interaction to video conferencing. Originality/value The application of phenomenology to a collection of qualitative interviews has enabled the identification of underlying intention structures and the system in which they affect each other. This research identifies conflicts of interests between workers relative to their different self-perceived abilities to persevere in competitive professional interaction. It is therefore able to address consequences of future hybrid work models at an existential and societal level.

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Section: Discussion: a System Of Intentionalitiesmentioning

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Section: Introduction: Future Hybrid Work Modelsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Advantages and disadvantages of video conferencing and direct interaction: a conceptual framework for evaluating hybrid work models

Thejls Ziegler,

Lütge

2024

IJOES

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Social Systems as Moral Agents: A Systems Approach to Moral Agency in Business

de Pedro

2024

J Bus Ethics

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In the context of business, interactions between individuals generate social systems that emerge anywhere within a corporation or in its relations with external agents. These systems influence the behaviors of individuals and, as a result, the collective actions we usually attribute to corporations. Social systems thus make a difference in processes of action that are often morally evaluated by internal and external agents to the firm. Despite this relevance, social systems have not yet been the object of specific attention in the literature on moral agency in business. To fill this gap, I construct a theoretical framework based on Luhmann’s ideas on social systems and morality. In particular, I argue that morality is a phenomenon that occurs in communication, and an agent can engage in morality in three different ways (as a moral factor, an expressive moral agent, or a reflective moral agent) depending on the functions it plays in communicative interactions. Based on this framework, I argue that social systems in business can be considered moral agents of those types.

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Managerial Control of Employees’ Intercorporeality and the Production of Unethical Relations

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Advantages and disadvantages of video conferencing and direct interaction: a conceptual framework for evaluating hybrid work models

Advantages and disadvantages of video conferencing and direct interaction: a conceptual framework for evaluating hybrid work models

Social Systems as Moral Agents: A Systems Approach to Moral Agency in Business

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