Caring beyond kinship: applying Jane Addams' social ethic to the organizational domain
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Paradox and Power in Caring Leadership Critical and Philosophical Reflections
Editor(s)
Leah Tomkins
Abstract
As an approach to ethical engagement, ‘care ethics’ has largely been seen as appropriate to the realm of the personal: within family relations, health and well-being contexts, and education, particularly that of young children. Principle or justice-based ethical approaches, with their emphasis on fairness and universal applicability, have been seen as more apt orientations to use within organizational contexts. The kind of particularized attention central to an ethic of care is potentially problematic within contexts in which treating everyone ‘equally’ is a guiding principle
Department
Leadership, Management & Business
ISBN
9781788975506
Publisher
Edward Elgar Publishing Limited
Document Type
Book Chapter
Publication Date
2020
Recommended Citation
Ladkin, D. (2020). Caring beyond kinship: applying Jane Addams' social ethic to the organizational domain. Paradox and Power in Caring Leadership Critical and Philosophical Reflections. https://aura.antioch.edu/facchapters/23