New Work Ethics
The Corporate Athlete’s Back End Index and Organizational Performance
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20501233 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Peter Kelly (0000-0003-4030-8301, Monash University), Steven Allender (0000-0002-4842-3294, Department of Public Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK), Derek Colquhoun (0000-0002-4263-017X, Institute for Learning, University of Hull, Hull, UK) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Volume | 14 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 267-285 |
| Publication date | 2007-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Organization (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1350-5084 • E-ISSN: 1461-7323 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1350508407074228 |
| OpenAlex | W2055402148 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 21 |
| References cited | 14 |
Drawing on Michel Foucault’s later genealogies of the Self the paper will illustrate particular dimensions of the increasingly powerful individualizing and normalizing processes shaping the lifeworlds of worker-citizens in a globalizing risk society. Processes that require those who wish to be positively identified as professional, entrepreneurial, resilient, effective, athletic to do particular sorts of work on themselves. Here the paper argues that we can identify the emergence of what we call New Work Ethics. We illustrate this more general argument via an analysis of the ways in which a large Information Technology (IT) organization seeks to produce—via a workplace health and fitness program—employees who imagine themselves as embodying the behaviours and dispositions that mark the person as a corporate athlete. Knowledge of the Self in these terms can, it is promised, enhance the performance of the Self, and the organization
Epistemology · Michel foucault · Political science · Public relations · Sociology · Doping in Sports · Law · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts · Sports, Gender, and Society
Corporate academic body capital
Becoming Your Own Device
Exploring the Foucauldian interpretation of power and subject in organizations
Behind the good of digital tools for occupational safety and health
An employee-centered framework for healthy workplaces
Making a healthy change
In the flesh
The ethical difference of Organization
Foucault, subjectivity and ethics
Corporeal ethics and the politics of resistance in organizations
A Nietzschean reading of Foucauldian thinking
Governing through career coaching
Redeeming organisational soul
Extreme wellness at work
Citius, Altius, Fortius
Invisible minds
Askēsis and organizational culture
Accounting and cultural translation
The body, identity and gender in managerial athleticism
Built to last
Character and organization
Histoire de la sexualité, Tome I
Foucault and Political Reason
Max Weber
Introduction
The individualized society
Powers of Freedom
Michel Foucault
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
Growing Up as Risky Business? Risks, Surveillance and the Institutionalized Mistrust of Youth
Experiential learning and the shaping of subjectivity in the workplace
Foucault, Management and Organization Theory
Governing the unemployed self in an active society
| Unique citing works | 21 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,4 |
| Citation span | 2011 - 2026 (16) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 19 |