Reaching Into the Dark Side of Organisations: The Banality and Emergence of Administrative Evil in the Light of Two Case Examples

Virtanen, Petri; Lehtonen, Tommi; Raisio, Harri

doi:10.58235/sjpa.v26i2.7015

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“…Similarly, a number of contemporary psychological studies on the dark side of organizational behavior have been brought together. In light of these studies, international trade [48] and social capital [49,50] are among the external issues related to the dark side of organizational behavior. Other studies have been conducted on the dark side of management excellence [51], leadership [52], entrepreneurship [53][54][55][56], management decisions [50,57,58].…”

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“…In light of these studies, international trade [48] and social capital [49,50] are among the external issues related to the dark side of organizational behavior. Other studies have been conducted on the dark side of management excellence [51], leadership [52], entrepreneurship [53][54][55][56], management decisions [50,57,58]. Some of these studies focused on executive psychology [59][60][61] and leadership [14,62,63].…”

Section: The Stressor-emotion Modelmentioning

confidence: 99%

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In the literature of management and organization studies, the emphasis on the importance of human capital has increased with Neoclassical and later Modern management approaches after the Classical Period. The emphasis on the importance of human capital and human factor has increased with Neoclassical and later Modern management approaches after the Classical Period. With the understanding that the most important resource that organizations have is human, all kinds of positive and negative behaviors that the members of the organization will display in their workplaces appear as an important element for the business to continue its activities and gain competitive advantage. At this point, traditional organization and organizational behavior theories are shaped within the framework of rational human behavior. However, it is an undeniable fact that the behaviors exhibited by human nature will not always be positive and that negative attitudes will affect organizations and other individuals in different areas. Positivist organizational approaches, which deal with the behavior of organizational members in the context of cause-effect relationships, generally focus on the positive behaviors of employees. The dark side of organizational behavior, which is a reflection of irrational human behaviors and harms businesses with its negative consequences, has become one of the important research areas in recent years. It is important to determine how the irrational human factor, which traditional organizational behavior theories lack, can be directed in line with organizational goals. At this point, the necessity of considering all kinds of positive and negative behaviors exhibited by individuals with a holistic perspective emerges. The negative attitudes and behaviors in question represent the dark side of the organizational field. In this study, in which some basic concepts that make up the dark side of organizations are discussed, the antecedents, reasons, and reflections of the aforementioned behaviors in the organizational field are emphasized.

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Köse

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Beyond administrative burden: Activation and administrative harm

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2024

Aust J Social Issues

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Within recent public policy and administration scholarship, there has been a growing focus on the concept of “administrative burden” to describe the learning, compliance and psychological costs incurred by citizens when trying to access services and exercise social and political rights. Specifically, in the context of activation and welfare‐to‐work programmes, scholars have highlighted the effects of administrative burdens on claimants' autonomy, dignity and well‐being. We bring critical social policy scholarship on administrative harm into conversation with Adam and Balfour's concept of “administrative evil” to highlight the underlying dynamics of masking, moral inversion and dehumanisation that facilitate street‐level workers to adopt dispositions of enforcement of administrative burdens. To illustrate the applicability of Adam and Balfour's work to understanding how experiences of administrative burden can be intensified by the practices and dispositions of street‐level workers, we draw on examples of from an ethnographic study of the delivery of welfare‐to‐work in Australia.

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Reaching Into the Dark Side of Organisations: The Banality and Emergence of Administrative Evil in the Light of Two Case Examples

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