Tài liệu Just a Job? Communication, Ethics, and Professional Life pptx

[...]... for granted, such as the notion of a career as portable and as detached from others as a introduction 11 briefcase, have not always been seen that way Nor was a particular framing of the matter inevitable Students began writing reaction papers that probed deeply into the meanings of these master symbols and their applications to individuals and society They recognized that a symbol as powerful as “success”... dimensions that cut across various understandings of ethics, in order to illustrate just what we mean by ethics when we speak about it in various contexts These dimensions are agency and autonomy, discrimination and choice, motive and purpose, responsibility and relationship, rationality and emotionality, role and identity, and scene and situation Along the way, we invoke traditional ethical theories to... modern professional classes, particularly as they affect individual and collective moral practice In certain ways, formal professions have the capacity to elevate moral practice and create barriers to ethical visions We next consider the multiple sides of professional life, take a second look at the ethical claims associated with professionalism, and expose some of the problems with what we usually think... words that permit people to rationalize actions that 14 just a job? are unquestionably destructive to the interest of specific others On the other hand, we can use communication analysis to understand and invoke personal and social change A critical awareness of language affords us the structure to bring into our workplace an ethical maturity that we would also be proud to take home Brenden As a high... the very ways ethics are typically approached and framed Ethics, we learn, are relevant even in instances that are not readily identified as requiring ethical decisions Our central argument is that, rather than thinking about ethics as work, as something over and above everyday work life, professionals would do well to embrace ethics as relevant to all their everyday practices Ironically, as ethics... have replaced person-to-person communication, and software is used to “read” résumés, filtering out applicants who failed to satisfy certain keyword searches (Tugend, 2008) This process distances job applicants from potentially engaging conversations about work 24 just a job? history, character, and the potential fit between the applicant and the organization Framing a technology as morally neutral may... in the imagination of drama, are sites for dialogue through which we can become clearer about the ethical views we or others already hold and through which our ethical positions can change [E]thical views are a facet of all the language and thought we use and encounter daily (Edminston, 2000, p 64) “It’s Just a Job” and Other Ways of Framing Work “It’s just a job” belongs to a family of sayings we... emphasize certain features over others We conclude by arguing how Aristotle’s idea of eudaimonia helps unite reframed notions of virtue and our most cherished life goals In the chapters that follow we explore how we communicate about ethics across several domains Chapter 3 addresses work as an important domain of ethical talk The chapter argues that work and the talk about it are unavoidably ethical... to make sense of his brief experience in the corporate world After graduating from college, Dan, like many new graduates, worked a string of unrelated jobs while he tried (not always diligently) to answer the question, “What do I want to do with my life? ” After several years working as a concrete-construction laborer, a college debate coach, and a bookseller at a large chain, Dan took a job as a marketing... ethical in nature and considers the multiple ways work is meaningful for people and the various roles it plays in their lives, taking into account historical and cross-cultural variations Especially important in this regard are the ways “work” and life are commonly separated—but sometimes united—in contemporary (post)industrial society How work is bounded and framed in everyday thought and talk has enormous .