Co-constructing ethical practices in the workplace
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Authors
Prinsloo, Hendrik Jakobus
Issue Date
2009-08
Type
Dissertation
Language
en
Keywords
Aware empowered participants , Contextual theology , Ethics , Justice , Pastoral care , Pastoral therapy practice , Prophetic ethical leadership , Social construction , Witnessing , Workplace injustice , Workplace trauma , Workplace culture , Workplace transformation
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Abstract
This dissertation of limited scope explored via a qualitative reflective approach how pastoral therapy and care practices contributed to workplace transformation and ethics at a factory that had to be restored to profitability.
In Chapter 1, the study's research curiosity questions how pastoral therapy and care practices could inform business in its resistance of workplace trauma and injustice. The epistemology of contextual theology and social constructionism is reviewed in Chapter 2 in its support of the research. Themes and ideas such as; participatory ethical care, ethics,
the prophetic role, narratives, workplace culture, witnessing and participant awareness and empowerment are applied to workplace culture transformation.
Chapter 3 explores the factory's dominant story of low morale, financial loss and feelings of no hope for the future in context of discourses of capitalism. In resistance to the
dominant story, Chapter 4 focuses on practices and experiences that supported the factory's alternative story and Chapter 5 reviews the factory's alternative story in context of purposeful transformation practice.
Chapter 6 concludes the study by reflecting on the research curiosity, the research aims and the researcher's development.
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Citation
Prinsloo, Hendrik Jakobus (2009) Co-constructing ethical practices in the workplace, University of South Africa, Pretoria, <http://hdl.handle.net/10500/1762>