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| Tekijä: | McMurray, R. Pullen, A. Rhodes, C. |
| Otsikko: | Ethical subjectivity and politics in organizations: a case of health care tendering |
| Lehti: | Organization
2011 : JUL, VOL. 18:4, p.541-561 |
| Asiasana: | business ethics corporate culture health service organization theory |
| Kieli: | eng |
| Tiivistelmä: | This study examines the relationship between ethics and politics in organizations, specifically focusing on ethical subjectivity - that is, how people at work constitute themselves as subjects relating to both their conduct and sense of ethical responsibility to others. To inspect this we consider those ethics politically mobilized when five clinical partners tendered to buy out the medical practice where they worked. A detailed reading is provided of a letter of complaint written by one of the partners and then sent to their employer - a letter we see to be a deliberate, political, ethically motivated and overt resistance act. Stemming from the ethical philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas we argue that the practice of ethics is marked by a tension where ethical commitments and realpolitik crash together. The implication from this is that in organizations the ethical subject is also a political subject; the one taking action in response to the ethical demand. It answers the call to political action by the ethical subject, prepared to act in response to the experienced injustice while not resting easy on one's own ethical righteousness. That provides an affirmative opportunity for researching and theorizing ethics within a critical framework. |
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