Managing Subjectivity and the Dialectic of Self-Consciousness: Hegel and Organization Theory

This article presents the work and ideas of the German philosopher G. WF Hegel as a means of addressing recent debates concerning the management of employee subjectivity within contemporary work organizations. Drawing primarily upon his writings on the phenomenological development of `self-conscious...

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Published inOrganization (London, England) Vol. 8; no. 4; pp. 565 - 585
Main Authors Hancock, Philip, Tyler, Melissa
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Thousand Oaks, CA SAGE Publications 01.11.2001
Subjects
Dialectics
Ethics
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich
Labour relations
Management research
Ontology
Organization Theory
Organizational Culture
Philosophy
Subjectivity
Work Organization
Workers
subjectivity
embodiment
dialectics
culture
Hegel
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ISSN1350-5084
1461-7323
DOI10.1177/135050840184002

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Summary:This article presents the work and ideas of the German philosopher G. WF Hegel as a means of addressing recent debates concerning the management of employee subjectivity within contemporary work organizations. Drawing primarily upon his writings on the phenomenological development of `self-consciousness' and the concept of `ethical life' as a state of realized subjectivity, the authors argue that they provide a meta-theoretical framework within which the processual ontology of organizational (inter)subjectivity can be both addressed and critically appraised. This is then illustrated by a discussion of the role corporate culturalism plays in the mediation of this process, with particular attention being paid to its impact on the embodied dimension of the subject.
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ISSN:1350-5084
1461-7323
DOI:10.1177/135050840184002