scholarly journals The Conditions of Our Freedom: Foucault, Organization, and Ethics

2008 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 299-320 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Crane ◽  
David Knights ◽  
Ken Starkey
Keyword(s):  
Business Ethics ◽  
Ethical Theory ◽  
The Self ◽  
Technologies Of The Self ◽  
Value Based Management ◽  
Personal Project ◽  
Ethics Teaching ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Business Ethics Teaching ◽  
And Control

The paper examines the contribution of the French philosopher Michel Foucault to the subject of ethics in organizations. The paper combines an analysis of Foucault’s work on discipline and control, with an examination of his later work on the ethical subject and technologies of the self. Our paper argues that the work of the later Foucault provides an important contribution to business ethics theory, practice and pedagogy. We discuss how it offers an alternative avenue to traditional normative ethical theory that both converges and diverges with other extant alternatives. By situating ethics as practices of the self, and by demonstrating the conditions under which freedom in organizations can be exercised, Foucault’s ethics attempt to connect an understanding and critique of power with a personal project of self. He therefore provides a theory of subjectivity that potentially informs a reshaping of contemporary virtue ethics theory, value-based management, and business ethics teaching.

Performing the Self and Staging the Other: Scripting the Legend of Lucretia in Early Modern England

Paragrana ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 44-59
Author(s):  
Sarah D. R. Sallmann
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Early Modern Period ◽  
National Identities ◽  
The Self ◽  
The Other ◽  
Cultural Encounters ◽  
The Subject ◽  
English Identity ◽  
Plot Structure ◽  
And Control

AbstractIn England, throughout the early modern period and beyond, the Rape of Lucretia served as a central intertext for literary and non-literary works engaging with the subject of transgression. Not only did legal tracts and social pamphlets prescribe a woman to behave analogously to Lucretia after rape in order to contest the innocence of her soul through her bodily performance. Allegorically, the legend′s iteration within new cultural contexts in contemporary English historiography and drama provided a powerful subtext with which national histories and identities were scripted according to a familiar plot structure in order to represent 'the Turk′ and thereby to interpret and control what was perceived to be a threat to English identity and sovereignty at a time of intensifying Anglo-Ottoman encounters. This paper not only demonstrates the re-staging of the Rape of Lucretia in different texts and contexts; it examines the way in which the national identities and cultural encounters are represented and performed through the legend in order to stage the self and the Other within the radical discourse of alterity in contemporary proto-orientalist contexts.

scholarly journals DALYKINĖS ETIKOS DĖSTYMO STRATEGIJOS

Problemos ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 69 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laimutė Jakavonytė
Keyword(s):  
Business Ethics ◽  
Teaching Strategy ◽  
Holistic Approach ◽  
Teaching Business Ethics ◽  
Teaching Business ◽  
Ethics Teaching ◽  
Ethical Skills ◽  
Business Ethics Teaching ◽  
Ethics Courses ◽  
Key Questions

Šio straipsnio tikslas – paskatinti diskusijas apie dalykinės etikos dėstymo metodologiją ir metodiką – lėmė atlikto tyrimo pagrindinius uždavinius: kritiškai išanalizuoti Vakarų specializuotoje literatūroje aptariamas skirtingas dalykinės etikos dėstymo strategijas ir supažindinti Lietuvos skaitytojus su pagrindinėmis tyrimo išvadomis. Dėl nedidelės straipsnio apimties tyrimo lauką teko susiaurinti iki vieno, tačiau esminio klausimo: kaip apibrėžiami dalykinės etikos dėstymo atskiru akademiniu kursu tikslai? Atsakymas į šį klausimą lemia ir dėstomo dalyko turinį, ir skirtingų dėstymo metodikų pasirinkimą, ir studentų bei dėstytojų bendro darbo rezultatų vertinimo kriterijus. Tyrimui buvo pasirinktas lyginamosios analizės metodas. Straipsnio autorė išskiria penkias dalykinės etikos dėstymo strategijas ir lygina jas šiais aspektais: koks vaidmuo skiriamas praktinės filosofijos studijoms, kiek nuosekliai skirtingų praktinės filosofijos paradigmų teoriniai konstruktai taikomi formuojant dalykinės etikos dėstymo strategijas, kokius įgūdžius ir kompetencijas siekiama padėti išsiugdyti studentams, kaip dėstymo tikslų ir uždavinių pasirinkimas lemia dėstymo metodų pasirinkimą. Straipsnis baigiamas išvada, kad aptartos dalykinės etikos dėstymo strategijos neneigia viena kitos, bet papildo, ir kuo organiškiau šios strategijos bus susiejamos dėstant dalykinę etiką, tuo rečiau dėstytojams teks atsakinėti į klausimą, ar reikia dėstyti dalykinės etikos kursus.Reikšminiai žodžiai: dalykinė etika, dėstymo strategija, etinė kompetencija, etiniai įgūdžiai. STRATEGIES FOR TEACHING BUSINESS ETHICSLaimutė Jakavonytė Summary A review of the literature on teaching business ethics reveals important findings and states key questions for the further discussions: can business ethics be taught? Can business ethics be learned? Should business ethics be delivered in a specialized course? Should it be integrated across the curriculum? What are the moral and intellectual capacities that can be aimed to be developed by students and instructors at business ethics courses? However, author focuses on a comparative analysis of the strategies of teaching business ethics, which are distinguished with regard to only one holistic approach: what are the key goals of teaching business ethics that would determine the means that should be chosen for the effective achieving of the aimed goals? The different answers to this key question make possible to distinguish among at least five different methodological approaches and teaching strategies. It is argued in the article that these five strategies should not be regarded as rival positions, but as complementary approaches in teaching business ethics.Keywords: business ethics, teaching strategy, ethical competence, ethical skills.

Corporate Governance and the Ethics of Narcissus

2001 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 109-127 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Roberts
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Governance ◽  
Business Ethics ◽  
The Self ◽  
Ethical Responsibility ◽  
Disciplinary Power ◽  
Moral Sensibility ◽  
Financial Interests ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Perception Of Self

Abstract:This paper offers an extended critique of the proliferation of talk and writing of business ethics in recent years. Following Levinas, it is argued that the ground of ethics lies in our corporeal sensibility to proximate others. Such moral sensibility, however, is readily blunted by a narcissistic preoccupation with self and securing the perception of self in the eyes of powerful others. Drawing upon a Lacanian account of the formation of the subject, and a Foucaultian account of the workings of disciplinary power, it is then argued that the governance of the corporation is effected precisely through encouraging such a narcissistic preoccupation with the self. For the most part our narcissistic concerns are bound to ethically indifferent financial interests. But in recent years they have also been harnessed to the demand for environmental, social and ethical responsibility by the corporation. It is argued, however, that the desire to be seen to be ethical—the ethics of narcissus—is the obverse of “being responsible for.”

scholarly journals Penerapan Etika Bisnis Islam di Koppontren La Tansa Pondok Modern Darussalam Gontor, Tahun 2015

2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ahmad Lukman Nugraha
Keyword(s):  
Business Ethics ◽  
Boarding School ◽  
Research Data ◽  
The Self ◽  
Business Sector ◽  
Business Unit ◽  
Data Display ◽  
Self Help ◽  
And Control

Discussion in ethics of business activity poped out to minimize cheating and fraud. But actually, business ethics felt difficult to apply in practice. Modern Islamic Boarding School Darussalam Gontor as one of the self-help Islamic Boarding Schools supported by cooperatives in pesantren (koppontren) in their activities. This paper aims to understand the application of Islamic buseness ethic in Koppontren La-Tansa Gontor. This research uses mix method which is sequential explanatory design and case study, questionnaires, interviews, observation and documentation used to collecting data in this research. Data analysis was performed through data reduction, data display, and data verification. The results of this research can be explained as: first, La-Tansa cooperatives sector Gontor can run the business activities with the implementation of business ethics according to the Qur’an and Sunnah values. Appear from the height understanding of the business to the axiom business ethics and the height application in business activities in each business sector. Second, the character of kyai and business unit supervisor are high. According to the data, showed that a level of the heigh direction is 80 persent and control on the application of business ethics is 72 percent. Thus, the Islamic buseness ethic can be applied on firm’s and goverment’s law with height understanding and controlling.

scholarly journals Is e-learning a panacea for the current challenges of business ethics teaching?

2020 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 43-66
Author(s):  
Anna Horodecka
Keyword(s):  
Business Ethics ◽  
Relevant Literature ◽  
Good Alternative ◽  
Teaching Business Ethics ◽  
Hybrid Form ◽  
Teaching Business ◽  
Ethics Teaching ◽  
E Learning ◽  
Teaching Goal ◽  
Business Ethics Teaching

The scope of the paper is to investigate whether e-learning is a good alternative to achieve business ethics teaching goals in the challenging context of disembedded economies. To achieve this goal, I used various interdisciplinary methods and approaches, content analysis of the relevant literature, and a case study. Firstly, I focus on the current challenges of business ethics teaching. Then, based on my experience of teaching business ethics in various forms, I distinguish the methods applied within them and evaluate them, taking as criteria the cognitive, applicative, and reflective goals of teaching business ethics. Models and theories of educational psychology provide a framework to distinguish some elements that are responsible for the learning success of the student in terms of the defined teaching goal. Empirical results show that although e-learning scored best when it comes to achieving three differentiated goals of business ethics teaching, it is followed closely by seminars. This leads to the conclusion that perhaps a hybrid form, containing e-learning and seminars, would be the optimal way to achieve the goals.

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