Research Agenda for Organizational Ethics

Edited by Jen Jones, Associate Professor and Department Coordinator, Marketing and Communication, School of Business, Seton Hill University, US

‘This edited collection reflects important debates in organizational ethics and provides comprehensive, critical, and creative responses that will help move the field forward. With such an innovative approach to the subject, I wholeheartedly recommend this book to all colleagues, whether they are students, scholars or practicing leaders. There are significant insights for all.’

• Contents:Preface xviiPART I EXPANDING HORIZONS OF SCHOLARSHIPTHROUGH INTERPRETIVE HERMENEUTICS1 Expanding horizons: mythodology for interpretivescholarship 3Jen Jones2 Aesop’s cautionary fables about the demos andleadership 19Joanne B. Ciulla3 The ethics of faith and suspicion: reflections withthe philosophy of Ricoeur and the fiction of le Carré 33Leah TomkinsPART II RETHINKING ETHICAL DECISION-MAKINGAND ACTION4 How irony can inform whistleblowing: lessonsfrom Harriet Jacobs 49Donna Ladkin5 On bolstering the experience of moral agency:Simone de Beauvoir and ethical decision-makingin organizations 63Helet Botha6 Giving up the good for the better: Dorothy Day’sethic of direct action 77Barbara Jones DenisonPART III RESTORING SUBJECTIVITY INORGANIZATIONAL OBJECTIFICATION7 Questioning large corporations: personalism andlocalism for organizations too big to care 93Gregory R. Beabout8 Organizational ethics of Smith and Levinas:sympathy and face countering precarity 107Ronald C. Arnett9 Examining “managing a diverse workforce” usingcritical leadership theory and Fanon’s work canreveal its colonialist practices 121Jennifer L. S. ChandlerPART IV PRACTICING VIRTUE, PROFESSIONALCIVILITY, AND MINDFULNESS IN ORGANIZATIONS10 Ethical existential leadership lessons fromFlannery O’Connor’s “The Lame Shall Enter First” 135Janie Harden Fritz11 “Everything is waiting for you”: a ventriloqualview of organizational ethics, professional civility,and the practice of attention 149.züm Üçok-Sayrak12 The integrally mindful organization: creatinginterspaces for human flourishing 163Annette M. HolbaPART V SUSTAINING ORGANIZATIONS THROUGHSILENCE AND CARE13 Thomas Merton’s love of silence and theorganization of creative responsibility 179Aaron K. Kerr14 Grounding sustainable organizations through anethics of care 191Danilo BoffaPART VI TRANSFORMING ORGANIZATIONS IN TIMES OF CRISIS15 Unmasking the problem in a pandemic age:Arendt, Camus, and collective responsibility 207Rita A. Gardiner16 The Plague: invitation to transformation in an ageof absurdity 221Brent C. SleasmanIndex