Visual Ethics

This volume includes six varied contributions to the study of visual ethics in organizations. The implications of our visual world for organizational life and personal behaviour have received scant research attention. This volume sets out to address that lack of research. It includes contributions on empirical studies, film, personal portraits, social research using the photovoice method, bureaucracy and critical theory. Contributors show how the application of disciplines developed for the study of films can help us to understand how organizations are perceived, and how visual images can be used in empirical research about organizations, ethics and organizational citizenship behaviour. Some say philosophy has abandoned art, some that humans lack moral vision. A number of contributors show how a careful and informed study of art can enhance our understanding of organizational life. This volume seeks to put the visual back into ethics and organizations.

Chapter 1. Visual Ethics; Michael Schwartz, Howard Harris and Debra R. Comer Chapter 2. Visual Images of People at Work: Influences on Organizational Citizenship Behavior; Brandon Randolph-Seng, Brandt A. Smith and Andrea Slobodnikova Chapter 3. The Art of Joseph Cornell: Visual Reflections of the Debate on Bureaucratic and Post-Bureaucratic Organizations; Lizabeth Barclay Chapter 4. The Good, The Bad and the Ugly: A study of the organization through the lens of popular films of the western world; Elizabeth Lomas and Vanda Broughton Chapter 5. Storytelling through Photos: A Photovoice Lense on Ethical Visual Research; Janine Pierce Chapter 6. A Critically Compassionate Vision of Accountability: Discipline-Based Art Education, Purposeful Dialogue, and Financial Literacy; Thomas A. Lucey, James D. Laney and Mary Frances Agnello Chapter 7. Organizational Ethics and Self-Realization: How Could Artists' Self-Portraits and Philosophical Novels Release Us from Estrangement?; Michel Dion Chapter 8. The Political Ethics and the Attribution of Moral Responsibility to Public Organizations: Its Scope and Its Limits; Gines Marco Chapter 9. Behavioral-based Theories and the Aid Industry: An Explanation for Unintended, Negative Outcomes; Charles J. Coate, James Mahar, Mark C. Mitschow and Zachary Rodriguez Chapter 10. The effect of embedded managerial values on corporate financial outcomes; Alain Neher, Alexander Jungmeister, Calvin Wang and Oliver Burmeister Chapter 11. Renewing Strategic Business Focus through Shared Value: A Eupsychian and Ideation Approach; Alan Fish, Xianglin (Shirley) Ma and Jack Wood