Citizenship in Organizations

Practicing the Immeasurable

Suzan Langenberg, Fleur Beyers, Suzan Langenberg, Fleur Beyers

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2017
• Print ISBN:
  9783319602363
• eBook ISBN:
  9783319602370
• Topic: Business
• Subtopic: Business Ethics
• Index: Business

This book explores the concept of citizenship, and the role that organizations can or do play in its creation, stimulation and control. Offering multiple organizational perspectives (private and public organisations) and their relation to several types of output (citizenship, poverty, profit, employability), this work presents a rich collection of philosophical thoughts and practices on the subject of citizenship within and without the organizational context. Particular attention is given to this human aspect, an element of unpredictability, a gut feeling, the unknown... something immeasurable that plays a part in human relations and how they organize themselves. Citizenship in Organizations casts new light on the impact of organizations to the notion of citizenship.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Frontmatter
• Introduction
• In What Sense Does Economic Immeasurability Exist?
• Meeting at the Boundaries: Marginality as a Source of Wealth
• Inequality of Power
• Politics: Understanding a Volatile Realm
• Is There Space for Rational Thinking in Altruism? From Charity to Philanthropy
• Guiltless Guilt, Basis of a Critical Morality
• Organizing Counter-Conduct
• Emergent Times: Disruptive Logic as a Breeding Ground
• Toward an Irony-Centered Organization
• Immeasurability, Biology, Identity. Citizenship and the Meaning of a Diagnostic Label for Adults Diagnosed with Autism
• Recognition: A Business Case for Developing Through Relationships
• Facilitating the Unexpected
• Boundaries of (Im)measurability in Palliative Care
• Measuring the Immeasurable
• Backmatter