Virtue Beyond Contract: A MacIntyrean Approach to Employee Rights

Bernacchio, Caleb

doi:10.1007/s10551-020-04435-2

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“…Notably, both the Rowntree and Cadbury families provided a pension scheme just after the turn of the twentieth century (Walvin 1997), and the Quaker model villages at Bourneville, Birmingham, and New Earswick, York, are perhaps the best-known expression of their social vision. These initiatives suggest that Quaker businesses recognised the worth of workers beyond their contributions considered in narrow economic terms, and mirror Bernacchio's (2020) suggestion that the MacIntyrean perspective can ground a case for employee rights. Returning to the example of the Scott Bader Commonwealth, these kinds of these kinds of social concern that were initially exemplified by its Quaker founder continue to manifest in strong commitments to employee ownership and charitable aims (Scott Bader Commonwealth, n.d.) Quakers also recognised a sense of their responsibilities to a wider vision for community and society, responsibilities which would beyond the scope of the emotivist character of the manager.…”

Section: Critique Of Manipulative Managementmentioning

confidence: 76%

Quaker Business Ethics as MacIntyrean Tradition

Burton

Sinnicks

2021

J Bus Ethics

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This paper argues that Quaker business ethics can be understood as a MacIntyrean tradition. To do so, it draws on three key MacIntyrean concepts: community, compartmentalisation, and the critique of management. The emphasis in Quaker business ethics on finding unity, as well as the emphasis that Quaker businesses have placed on serving their local areas, accords with MacIntyre’s claim that small-scale community is essential to human flourishing. The emphasis on integrity in Quaker business ethics means practitioners are well-placed to resist the compartmentalising pressures of contemporary work. Quaker business ethics is also highly critical of the manipulative forms of management that MacIntyre regards as dominant. As such, Quaker business ethics provides evidence that more morally ameliorative forms of running business organisations is possible, even if they remain difficult to achieve.

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Section: Critique Of Manipulative Managementmentioning

confidence: 76%

Quaker Business Ethics as MacIntyrean Tradition

Burton

Sinnicks

2021

J Bus Ethics

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“…While MacIntyre has been heavily critical of corporate modernity (MacIntyre, 1979 ; see also McMylor, 1994 ), some commentators have been keen to stress that communities can be virtual rather than face-to-face and that the modern firm is capable of housing communities (Dobson, 2008 ), and even that such modern communities have a variety of advantages over pre-modern communities (Dobson, 2009 ). Whether contemporary workplaces face particular challenges when it comes to achieving the status of MacIntyrean community, that they facilitate participation (Bernacchio, 2021 ) is a decisive factor. This is in part because of another facet of MacIntyre's critique of management: his rejection of a distinctively “managerial expertise”.…”

Section: Practices Institutions and Managementmentioning

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Exploring the vulnerability of practice-like activities: An ethnographic perspective

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IntroductionThis paper explores the vulnerability of practice-like activities to institutional domination.MethodsThis paper offers an ethnographic case study of a UK-based engineering company in the aftermath of its acquisition, focusing in particular on its R&D unit.ResultsThe Lab struggled to maintain its practice-based work in an institutional environment that emphasized the pursuit of external goods.DiscussionWe use this case to develop two arguments. Firstly, we illustrate the concept of “practice-like” activities and explore their vulnerability to institutional domination. Secondly, in light of the style of management on display after the takeover, we offer further support to MacIntyre's critique of management. Finally, based on the empirical data we reflect on the importance of organizational culture, as well as friendship and the achievement of a common good in business organizations for these kinds of activities.

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“…In the mining of mica for the cosmetics and paint industries [42] in India, children as young as six are paid 50 rupees a day (approx. 70 cents), with child labour making up half of all workers in mica mines.…”

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Supply Chains’ Failure in Workers’ Rights with Regards to the SDG Compass: A Doughnut Theory Perspective

2021

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Many supply chains have pledged to prevent the violation of workers’ rights as part of social sustainability in their far-flung supply chains. This paper provides a way to understand why supply chains fail to overcome the violation of workers’ rights by mapping the UN SDGs onto the social foundations of the doughnut model, with respect to workers’ rights in supply chains. We develop the sustainable supply chain doughnut model with regards to the SDGs, through which we investigate workers’ rights violations. Examples from both UK-based and world-wide supply chains illustrates our conceptual model. Supply chains have shortfalls in all aspects of the social foundation when it comes to workers as one of their main stakeholders. Until supply chains are successful in overcoming shortfalls across all elements of the social foundation, moving to the next layer of the doughnut framework is impossible, which is the safe and just space for all humans, including workers. This ‘safe and just space’ seems out of reach despite international efforts such as the SDGs. The resulting conceptual model can be the foundation for descriptive, instrumental, and normative research on workers’ rights in the supply chain as part of the social sustainability.

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Virtue Beyond Contract: A MacIntyrean Approach to Employee Rights

Cited by 13 publications

References 72 publications

Quaker Business Ethics as MacIntyrean Tradition

Quaker Business Ethics as MacIntyrean Tradition

Exploring the vulnerability of practice-like activities: An ethnographic perspective

Supply Chains’ Failure in Workers’ Rights with Regards to the SDG Compass: A Doughnut Theory Perspective

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