Business ethics and care in organizations / edited by Marianna Fotaki, Gazi Islam, and Anne Antoni.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part I. Overview -- The contested notions and meaning of care: an overview -- Part II. Philosophical underpinnings and theories of care -- Making people grow: a new understanding of organisational ethics with Deleuze and Guattari -- Between care and justice: David Hume's accounts of sympathy -- The contribution of Simone Weil to the enrichment of the ethics of care: revisiting the notion of "dialogue" -- The dark side of work in organisations: the lived experience of suffering at work -- Part III. Organizations practising care -- 'Being gentle' and being 'firm': an extended vocabulary of care as dynamic practice at work -- A serious matter: clowning as an ethical care practice -- Fusing care and control?: HR-managers' meanings of care at the workplace -- Unpacking the discourses of 'caring management': two cases to explore the conditions of an applied ethics of care -- Part IV. Caring pedagogies -- Feeling good and being inspired on campus: meaningful work in academia -- Research impact as care: re-conceptualizing research impact from an ethics of care perspective -- Supporting caring teachers in universities: an ethics of care perspective to the teacher-student relationship -- Do they care for the newcomers? Examining organizational reification within socialization processes through the lens of identity work -- Part V. Politics of care -- The work inclusion of people with disabilities in the hospitality industry: a process toward a good organisation? -- Care and compassion at work: theorizing from indigenous knowledges -- Shifting the care of corporate social responsibility to dynamics of solidarity to redress workplace inequality -- Taking care of everybody? Alternative forms of organizing, diversity and the caring organization.

"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 coworker's wellbeing, 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 behaviors 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, wellbeing 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"-- Provided by publisher.