Reclaiming the system : moral responsibility, divided labour, and the role of organizations in society / Lisa Herzog.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Herzog, Lisa, 1983- author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Organizational change--Moral and ethical aspects.

Organizational change.

Business ethics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2018.

Summary:

The world of wage labour seems to have become a soulless machine, an engine of social and environmental destruction. Employees seem to be nothing but 'cogs' in this system - but is this true? Located at the intersection of political theory, moral philosophy, and business ethics, this text questions the picture of the world of work as a 'system'. Hierarchical organizations, both in the public and in the private sphere, have specific features of their own. This does not mean, however, that they cannot leave room for moral responsibility, and maybe even human flourishing. Drawing on detailed empirical case studies, Lisa Herzog analyses the nature of organizations from a normative perspective: their rule-bound character, the ways in which they deal with divided knowledge, and organizational cultures and their relation to morality.

Notes:

This edition previously issued in print: 2018.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-256613-X

0-19-186865-5

0-19-256612-1