The specific theme of the 8th workshop is the interplay of care and justice in organizational settings. Care has long been considered an important base of ethical reasoning and concepts attributed to care have proliferated only more recently, in the context of increasing awareness of the importance of wellbeing and of experienced suffering at work. However, considerations of care in the workplace pose ethical challenges for both managers and employees - and may, often counterintuitively, be at odds with justice concerns. For example, at which point may equal and fair decision-making turn into dehumanization, requiring to be balanced with considerations of individualized care? Even though justice has been more prevalent than a focus on care in management research and a plethora of studies has illustrated the importance of justice considerations at work, both concepts remain shabbily interwoven in both research and business reality.
With this workshop we seek to advance knowledge on the interrelation (overlaps, linkages, conflicts) between the concepts of care and justice in organizations when decision-makers struggle with moral dilemmas. We welcome submissions from a diverse set of theoretical backgrounds, methods, stakeholder perspectives, and disciplinary approaches. The workshop will be limited to a small group of active scholars and provide a dynamic setting for mutual discussion, conceptual feedback, development of new research ideas, and building collaborative relationships. We consider early stage papers based on new theoretical ideas or preliminary findings as well as fully developed manuscripts. The most important requirement is a willingness to share ideas and learn from one another. There is no fee for attending and presenting at the workshop. However, we will ask all who have a paper accepted and plan to attend to formally register as will be instructed after the acceptance.