Business Ethics and Care in Organizations

Care is a human ability we all need for growing and flourishing. It implies considering the needs and interests of others, and the quality of how we relate to each other is often defined by care. While the value of care in private life is widely recognized, its role in the public sphere is contested and subject to political debates. In work organizations, instrumentality frequently overrides considerations for colleagues' and co-workers' well-being, while relationships are often sacrificed in the service of performance and meeting organizational targets. The questions this volume attempts to address concerns the organizational conditions that make care flourish and how a caring organization functions in practice. Specifically, we examine what it means to care for each other and what enhances caring behaviours in organizations. The volume ultimately focuses on how caring relations can contribute to making organizations better places. In this perspective, care involves the recognition of, and the limitations of, work as a key aspect of personal and social identity. Because care exceeds the sphere of individual intimacy, the book will also centre on the necessity for building caring institutions through a political process that considers the needs, contributions, and prospects of many different actors. This book aims to contribute to academic discussions on care in organizations, care work, business and organizational ethics, diversity, caring leadership, well-being in organizations, and research ethics. Managers, consultants, policy-makers, and students will find reflections about the goodness of care in organizations, and guidance about the ethical and practical difficulties of pursuing the project of building caring organizations.

Marianna Fotaki is a Professor of Business Ethics at Warwick Business School, University of Warwick, UK. Gazi Islam is Professor of Business Administration at Grenoble Ecole de Management/University of Grenoble Alpes ComUE-IREGE, France. Anne Antoni is an Assistant Professor to the Department of People, Organizations and Society at Grenoble Ecole de Management/University of Grenoble Alpes ComUE, France.

Part I Overview 1. The Contested Notions and Meaning of Care: An Overview Marianna Fotaki, Gazi Islam and Anne Antoni PART II Philosophical Underpinnings and Theories of Care 2. Making People Grow: A New Understanding of Organizational Ethics with Deleuze and Guattari Viviana Meschitti 3. Between care and justice: David Hume's accounts of sympathy Krzysztof Durczak & Maciej Lawrynowicz 4. The Contribution of Simone Weil To The Enrichment Of The Ethics Of Care: Revisiting The Notion Of "Dialogue" Séverine Le Loarne - Christine Noel - Lemaitre 5. The Dark Side of Work In Organisations: The Lived Experience of Suffering At Work Parisa Dashtipour, Marianna Fotaki and Benedicte Vidaillet PART III Organizations Practising Care 6. 'Being Gentle' and Being 'Firm': An Extended Vocabulary of Care at Work Clare Mumford, David Holman, Leo McCann, Maurice Nagington & Laurie Dunn 7. A serious matter: Clowning as an ethical care practice Katharina Molterer and Patrizia Hoyer 8. Fusing care and control?: HR-Managers' meanings of care at the workplace Gabriele Fassauer 9. Unpacking the discourses of 'caring management': two cases to explore the conditions of an applied ethics of care Fiona Ottaviani and Hélène Picard PART IV Caring Pedagogies 10. Feeling Good and Being Inspired on Campus: A Search for Meaningful Work Elina Riivari, Virpi Malin, Päivikki Jääskelä , and Teija Lukkari 11. Research impact as care: Re-conceptualizing research impact from an ethics of care perspective Anne Antoni and Haley Beer 12. Supporting caring teachers in universities: An ethics of care perspective to the teacher-student relationship Lauren Schrock 13. Do they care the newcomers? Examining organizational reification within socialization processes through the lens of identity work Sonya Liu PART V Politics of Care 14. The work inclusion of people with disabilities in the hospitality industry: A process toward a good organisation? Rita Bencivenga and Michela Marchiori 15. Care And Compassion At Work: Theorizing From Indigenous Knowledges Tyron Rakeiora Love 16. Shifting the care of corporate social responsibility to dynamics of solidarity to redress workplace inequality Lotte Holck 17. Taking care of everybody?: Alternative forms of organizing, diversity and the caring organization Regine Bendl, Alexander Fleischmann and Angelika Schmidt List of Contributors Index