137 research outputs found
USING THE METHOD OF NARRATIVE CHANGE ACCOUNTING IN THE RESEARCH OF A LARGE FOREST INDUSTRY COMPANY. POWER AND CHANGE IN FOCUS
The aim of the study was to analyze the use of power in a strategic change process within a large forest industry company. The organization in question had a total of 7 700 employees, 6â8 organizational levels, over 30 production units and a widespread international sales network.
Essays on Business and Leadership Ethics
As this is a dissertation, an academic thesis, it is important to define the objectives of my research, even if ex post facto, explicitly:
- To define, develop and study the concept of business and leadership ethics.
- To empirically study the phenomena associated with business and leadership
from an ethical perspective.
- To create a new framework for the development of responsible business.
- To create an âacid testâ for my body of works, i.e. a test and an evaluation
on how well my research and ideas hold up under academic philosophical
reflection.
The utilitarian reasoning had the most support when the actors justified their actions regarding economic benefit. (=instrumental good). Duty and benefit were often mixed up in peopleâs speech. Their meaning contents were blurred and the argumentation lines created by the actors were broken. This can be interpreted in a way that supports Frankenaâs mixed deontological philosophy as a frame of reference. Deontologica reasoning was used e.g. in describing the personnel management processes of a company.
Virtue ethics is a favourable starting point for studying management and leadership
ethics. All the actors studied could name virtues for their operations, towards which to
aspire to. They also named professional practices already in use that they considered
to be virtuous.
Finally, I wish to state that normative ethics is an important branch of philosophical
ethics, if also very important in applied ethics especially. From the normative
standpoint, the results of this dissertation want to lead nations, communities and
individuals towards the virtues of democratic leadership and sustainable economic
development.Siirretty Doriast
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Practicing care in qualitative organizational research: Moral responsibility and legitimacy in a study of immigration management
Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to provide insight into the reciprocal relations between the caregiving done by immigration centre managers and the role of the researcher in responding to the care that is given by managerial caregivers. To enable this, we draw on a feminist theory of care ethics that considers individuals as relationally interdependent.
Design/methodology/approach
The analysis draws on a semi-structured interview study involving twenty Finnish immigration reception centre managers.
Findings
Insight is generated by reflecting on moments of care that arise between research participants and the researcher in a study of immigration centre management. We emphasise the importance of mature care, receptivity and engrossment in building caring relationships with research participants by acknowledging the care they give to others. Our findings draw attention to the moral and epistemological responsibility to practice care in organizational research.
Originality/value
The paper highlights the relationality between practicing care in immigration centre management and doing qualitative organizational research, both of which rely on mature care, receptivity and engrossment in order to meet the other morally. We draw attention to the moral responsibility to care which characterises researcher-researched relationships and emphasise the importance of challenging methodological discourses that problematise or dismiss care in qualitative organizational research
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