Lupton, Ben and Sarwar, Atif (2021) Blame at Work: Implications for Theory and Practice from an Empirical Study. Business & Professional Ethics Journal, 40 (2). pp. 157-188. ISSN 0277-2027
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Abstract
Existing work in the field of business ethics has explored how concepts in philosophy and other disciplines can be applied to blame at work, and considers blame’s potential impact on organisations and their employees. However, there is little empirical evidence of organisational blaming practices and their effects. This article presents an analysis of interviews with twenty-seven employees from a range of occupations, exploring their experience of blame, its rationale and impact. A diversity of blaming practices and perspectives is revealed, and in making sense of these the authors draw on recent theoretical developments—Skarlicki, Kay, Aquino, and Fushtey’s (2017) concept of ‘swift-blame,’ and Fricker’s (2016) notion of ‘communicative blame.’ The study also reveals a tension between a desire to
avoid ‘blaming’ on the one hand, and a need for ‘accountability,’ on the other, and the authors explore the implications of the findings for organisations in seeking to
‘manage’ blame.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Additional Information and Comments: | This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published in Business and Professional Ethics Journal on March 26, 2021, available online: https://doi.org/10.5840/bpej2021323109. |
| Keywords: | blame, work, organisations, philosophy |
| Faculty / Department: | Faculty of Business, Law and Criminology > Liverpool Hope Business School |
| Depositing User: | Atif Sarwar |
| Date Deposited: | 04 Nov 2022 12:04 |
| Last Modified: | 04 Nov 2022 12:04 |
| URI: | https://hira.hope.ac.uk/id/eprint/3664 |
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