ABSTRACT
The Routledge Companion to Ethics, Politics and Organizations synthesizes and extends existing research on ethics in organizations by explicitly focusing on ‘ethico-politics’ - where ethics informs political action. It draws connections between ethics and politics in and around organizations and the workplace, examines cutting-edge areas and sets the scene for future research.
Through a wealth of international and multidisciplinary contributions this volume considers the broad range of ways in which ethics and politics can be conceived and understood. The chapters look at various ethical traditions, as well as the discursive deployment of ethical terminology in organizational settings, and they also examine large scale political structures and processes and how they relate to different forms of politics which affect behaviour in organizations. These many possibilities are united by a focus on how ethics can be used to inform and justify the exercise of power in organizations.
This collection will be a valuable reference source for students and researchers across the disciplines of organizational studies, ethics and politics.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |2 pages
PART 1 Ethics and corporate power
part |2 pages
PART 2 Postcolonial, globalized and cosmopolitan ethics
part |2 pages
PART 3 Ethics, politics and the functioning of business
chapter |18 pages
Decision making: between reason and the ethico-political moment
chapter |15 pages
Leadership, ethical sovereignty and the politics of property
part |2 pages
PART 4 Ethico-political practice in organizations
chapter |17 pages
Ethico-politics of diversity and its production
chapter |12 pages
Work as God’s playtime? The theology of organizational play
chapter |17 pages
Care as politics: ethics as violence
chapter |18 pages
A critical analysis of ethics management practices
part |2 pages
PART 5 Ethics, resistance and struggle
chapter |13 pages
Is becoming-woman possible in organizations?
chapter |16 pages
Resisting the power of organizational resistance
part |2 pages
PART 6 Difference, ethics and organizations