In Search of Individual Responsibility: The Dark Side of Organizations in the Light of Jansenist Ethics

Deslandes, Ghislain

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“…Here, the sensing body provides raw knowledge about the situation but, although the rational soul drives the process, stressing primacy of logos over the body. Therefore, accounting for embodied bonds and heart-rooted solidarity when organizational contexts do not incline toward ethical behavior remains a pending issue for virtue ethics approaches (Deslandes, 2011).…”

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Ethics, embodied life and esprit de corps: An ethnographic study with anti-money laundering analysts

2014

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Our highly sensitive ethnographic study with anti-money-laundering analysts delves into the understudied link between embodiment and ethics in organizations. We begin by reclaiming the importance of bodies and embodiment in the business ethics literature, which largely assumes preeminence of the mind over the body. We then draw on French phenomenologist Michel Henry's theory of the subjective body to advance our understanding of ethics as endogenous embodied practice rooted in life. Through the experiential realities of our ethnographic work, we show how the two interrelated dimensions in which embodiment occurs (subjective body and organic body) operate at two interrelated levels (subjective and intersubjective experience) to advance theory on the implications of corporeal ethics in organizations. More specifically, by reclaiming and specifying the ontologically embodied and shared dimensions of ethical subjectivity in life, we show the emergence and development of an esprit de corps, which allows embodying collective ethical practice while resisting to continuous external pressures.

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Ethics, embodied life and esprit de corps: An ethnographic study with anti-money laundering analysts

2014

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“…In conjunction with bureaucracy or ethics, works that cite the book focus on managers' individual behaviour. For example, the study by Deslandes (2011) appearing in this journaluses Moral Mazes as a vignette in order to primarily examine the individual responsibility of authority figures and how it is robbed by bureaucracy. In relation to leadership and in the slightly more distant past Giampetro-Meyer et al (1998) also in this journalbriefly considered some of the themes from Jackall's work as an illustration of transactional leadership.…”

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The Impact of Structure and Corporate Ideology on Leader–Follower Relations in the Bureaucratic Organization: A Reflection on Moral Mazes

Kakavelakis

Edwards

2021

J Bus Ethics

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“…Committed? Or simply 'responsible' (Deslandes, 2011a;Pérezts, Bouilloud, & Gaulejac, 2011)? Everyone would probably agree that, in a business world where most leaders tend to maximize their salaries and bonuses rather than reduce them, it was a noble gesture or beau geste.…”

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The Aesthetics of Leadership:Beau Gesteas Critical Behaviour

Bouilloud

Deslandes

2015

Organization Studies

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This paper focuses on the role of beau geste in organizations, showing that it is endowed with a specifically critical dimension as it challenges both the established order and customary practices. We also scrutinize its unique role that consists in critically resisting economic norms. Analysing the beau geste actually offers an opportunity to broaden the scope of our vision of leadership by relying on aesthetics rather than conventionally viewing the leader as an artist. In the first part, we thus concentrate on the way leadership scholars have so far dealt with aesthetics. In the second part, through a series of examples and by adopting a historical perspective, we describe the defining features of the beau geste in organizations: gratuity effect, impact on the common good, size effect and surprise effect. We then analyse how beau geste indeed constitutes a form of provocation against an 'organized' world in which economic rationality seems to prevail. In the conclusion, we outline future prospects for research. Keywordsaesthetic leadership, beau geste, common good, critical leadership, noble gesture, Søren Kierkegaard With beau geste, individuals marginalize themselves for a moment, while catching the attention of an audience, in order to assert immediately thereafter the prevalence of a personal vision of things; be it an act of rebellion or a break-up act, it does nonetheless create a new world, a personal and self-avowed one.Greimas, 1993, p. 21

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In Search of Individual Responsibility: The Dark Side of Organizations in the Light of Jansenist Ethics

Abstract: In showing how the bureaucratic space negatively influences the moral conscience of managers, Robert

Cited by 13 publications

References 25 publications

Ethics, embodied life and esprit de corps: An ethnographic study with anti-money laundering analysts

Ethics, embodied life and esprit de corps: An ethnographic study with anti-money laundering analysts

The Impact of Structure and Corporate Ideology on Leader–Follower Relations in the Bureaucratic Organization: A Reflection on Moral Mazes

The Aesthetics of Leadership:Beau Gesteas Critical Behaviour

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