Exploring Individuals' Moral Agency In Practice: A Foucauldian Analysis

Bardon, Thibaut; Josserand, Emmanuel; Clegg, Stewart

Bardon, Thibaut; Josserand, Emmanuel; Clegg, Stewart (2011), Exploring Individuals' Moral Agency In Practice: A Foucauldian Analysis, 2011 Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, 2011-08, San Antonio, États-Unis

Type

Communication / Conférence

Date

2011

Titre du colloque

2011 Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management

Date du colloque

2011-08

Ville du colloque

San Antonio

Pays du colloque

États-Unis

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Auteur(s)

Bardon, Thibaut
Josserand, Emmanuel
Clegg, Stewart

Résumé (EN)

Drawing on the emerging identity work literature, this article adopts a Foucauldian perspective to further investigate how individuals deal with their moral agency in practice. To this end, we conduct an empirical case study linked to the introduction of a new management practice in a service firm. We identify four ways individuals as ethical subjects relate to such attempts to manage their subjectivity. By further exploring how individuals enact new management practices as ethical dilemmas, our aim is to contribute to rehabilitating the figure of employees as reflexive and agential actors.

Mots-clés

Ethical subjects; Ethique; Agential actors

JEL

M14 - Corporate Culture; Diversity; Social Responsibility