Moral identity and the Quaker tradition: moral dissonance negotiation in the workplace

Moral identity and moral dissonance in business ethics have explored tensions relating to moral self-identity and the pressures for identity compartmentalization in the workplace. Yet, the connection between these streams of scholarship, spirituality at work, and business ethics is under-theorized. In this paper, we examine the Quaker tradition to explore how Quakers’ interpret moral identity and negotiate the moral dissonance associated with a divided self in work organizations. Specifically, our study illuminates that while Quakers’ share a tradition-specific conception of “Quaker morality” grounded in Quaker theology and the Quaker testimonies to truth, integrity, peace, equality, and simplicity, they often foreground the pursuit of an undivided self through seeking work that enables an expression of Quaker moral identity, or by resigning from work organizations that do not. In most cases, however, Quakers’ face moral dissonance at work and engage in either identity compartmentalization and draw upon the metaphor of a ‘spiritual journey’ as a form of self-justification, or reframe, compartmentalize and engage in work tasks that are both subjectively moral and meaningful. We present a model that elaborates these negotiation processes and invite further research that examines how the spiritual traditions influence moral identity construction at work

Rhetorical structure and function in The Anatomy of Melancholy

In writing The Anatomy of Melancholy Robert Burton was working within the system of classical rhetoric as revived in the Renaissance, specifically the epideictic genus. A juxtaposition of the topics, arguments, and tripartite form employed by Burton with the treatment of epideictic in Aristotle's Rhetoric, as well as with aspects of the Roman and Hellenistic rhetorical traditions, shows how Burton has playfully adapted Renaissance conceptions of epideictic rhetoric forencyclopaedic, satirical, andself-expressive purposes. The function of rhetoric in the Anatomy is both to 'dissect' the corpus of knowledge about melancholy and to 'show forth' the author's own melancholic condition. © International Society for History of Rhetoric

Here Comes the Sun

In Tennessee, we're proving unequivocally that green jobs are the future of America's economy.Jim Burton, James Burton, dean, Jennings A. Jones College of Business, health care reform, healthcare reform, healthcare, health care, Tennessee, insurance, Middle Tennessee Medical Center

Personal Reasons for Not Supporting Government-Run Healthcare

I am pleased that the emergency care I needed did not have to wait on a ruling from some government czar.Jim Burton, James Burton, dean, Jennings A. Jones College of Business, health care reform, healthcare reform, healthcare, health care, Tennessee, insurance, Middle Tennessee Medical Center

Is This Election the Most Important Ever?

In every presidential election I can remember, it seems someone has opined that it was the most important election ever. And perhaps that was so. Maybe the stakes do ratchet up each time we go to the polls.Jim Burton, James Burton, MTSU, Jones College of Business, dean, Jennings A. Jones College of Business

Demand Forecasting for New Local Rail Services: A Case Study of a New Service Between Leicester and Burton-On- Trent

Preston, J. and Wardman, M. (1988) "Demand Forecasting for New Local Rail Services: A Case Study of a New Service between Leicester and Burton-on-Trent". Workina Paver 260, Institute for Transport Studies, University of Leeds. This paper assesses the potential for a new rail service between Leicester and Burton-on-rent. In order to do this, three sets of demand forecasts were produced. These were based on Revealed Preference (RP) models that had been developed in West Yorkshire, a Stated Intentions (SI) survey of the Leicester-Burton corridor and Stated Preference (SP) models developed for the Ashby/ Coalville -and Outer Leicester areas. It was found that these three approaches gave a wide range of forecasts but it was felt that the SI survey, adjusted for the findings from the SP models, were likely to give the most reliable estimates of usage. As a result, it was concluded that, given patronage growth over time, total usage of the line would amount to between 3,000 and 4,000 trips on an average day. The demand forecasts were then used as input to an evaluation framework which took into account capital costs, operating costs, revenue and time savings. Even if actual usage reached the upper level of our forecasts it was shown that, although operating costs would be covered, only some of the capital costs would be paid back. Consideration of user time savings strengthens the case for the scheme but even so a return on capital would still not be achieved. Therefore, it was concluded that the case for a rail service between Leicester and Burton is, at best, marginal, although a number of ways to continue the feasibility study are suggested

...and Contractual Consent

In Part I, the author contends that when economists persistently ignore the importance of contractual consent, they are missing the crucial problem of legitimacy. In Parts II and IV, he responds to the criticisms of his consent theory of contract advanced by Jay Feinman and Dennis Patterson. Both Feinman and Patterson object to the enterprise in which the author and others are engaging, and he explains why each is wrong to dismiss the current debate over default rules. Finally, in contrast, in Part III the author shows how Steven Burton\u27s theory of default rules, which he finds most congenial, is quite compatible with his despite the fact that Burton thinks they disagree

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Discussion

This is an edited transcript of remarks made by John C. Burton in response to Thomas S. Currier\u27s paper Mandating Disclosure in Municipal Securities Issues: Proposed New York Legislation. The remarks focus on the importance of the federal government in mandating disclosure