Morality as Organizational Practice

 

Dear colleagues

 

We cordially invite you to join us on November 10–12, 2021, for the online workshop "Morality as Organizational Practice." The event is the 19th workshop of the section "Cultures of Work" of the German Association of Cultural Anthropology and Folklore Studies (dgv), and will be hosted by the Institute for Cultural Anthropology and European Ethnology at the University of Freiburg (Germany). 

 

The online workshop gathers contributions on the subjective perspectives of actors (employees, freelancers, customers, and other stakeholders) on the moralization of organizations and on morality as organizational practice. It asks how they are affected by discourses on morality, how such discourses change organizational culture, hiring practices, work standards or modalities of employment.

 

The keynote will be given by Ellen Hertz (Neuchâtel). The workshop is preceded by a podium debate (in German) on "Gut arbeiten? Perspektiven auf Verantwortung und Gerechtigkeit in Unternehmen", bringing together employers, union representatives, human resource officers, and scholars for a discussion of responsibility and justice in enterprises.

 

All events will be streamed online. We kindly ask for registration at arbeitskulturen@gmail.com  

 

The workshop website can be accessed here: http://organization.dgv-arbeitskulturen.de/ 

A PDF-version of the workshop programme can be found here: http://organization.dgv-arbeitskulturen.de/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/programme-morality-web.pdf 

 

Best regards

Stefan Groth, Sarah May, Johannes Müske 

(organizational team) 

 

 

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Morality as Organizational Practice

19th Workshop of the Section "Cultures of Work" of the German Association of Cultural Anthropology and Folklore Studies (dgv), 10.–12. November 2021, Freiburg i. Br., Germany/online

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VORPROGRAMM

MI, 10. NOV. 18.15–19.45 UHR

ÖFFENTLICHE PODIUMSDISKUSSION: Gut arbeiten? Perspektiven auf Verantwortung und Gerechtigkeit in Unternehmen

Mit Björn Beckmann (Schwarzwaldmilch Freiburg), Christine Jägle (Personalrat Universität Freiburg), Reiner Geis (verdi-Bezirk Südbaden), Corinna Kämpfe (Grünhof e.V.), Michael Maile (maile & partner / HfWU Nürtingen), Inga Wilke (Kulturanthropologie Universität Freiburg). Moderation: Sarah May, Stefan Groth 

 

DO, 11. NOV 10.00–12.00 UHR

KOMMISSIONSSITZUNG: Kommission Arbeitskulturen in der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Volkskunde (dgv). Moderation: Manfred Seifert

 

12.00 UHR

Mittagspause/für alle in Freiburg: gemeinsames Mittagessen

 

 

PROGRAMME

THU, NOV. 11 

 

14.00 — WELCOME AND INTRODUCTION

Stefan Groth, Sarah May, Johannes Müske

 

14.15–15.15 — PANEL I

Intensive Livestock Farming between Public Criticism and Economic Tension. An Insight Based on the Example of Straw Pig vs. Slatted Floor

Barbara Wittmann (München)

 

On the relations of Economy, Ecology and Ethics. Approaching a Cultural Analysis of Bioeconomical Practices

Sarah May, Lea Breitsprecher (Freiburg)

 

15.15–15.45 — BREAK

 

15.45–17.15 — PANEL II

Morality amidst Audit Culture: The Indicative Role of Quality Management Work

Ruzana Liburkina (Frankfurt)

 

Paradoxes of 'Exorcism' in the Garment Factories of Bangladesh: Auditing, CSR, and 'New' Dispossession

Tareq Mohammad Hasan (Leiden)

 

An Experimentalist Turn in Corporate Global Sustainability Governance in the Cocoa Sector?

Patrick Feuerstein (Berlin)

 

17.15–18.15 — BREAK

 

18.15–19.45 KEYNOTE 

Business and Morality: The Limits of Goodwill 

Ellen Hertz (Neuchâtel) 

 

 

FRI, NOV. 12

 

09.00–10.30 — PANEL III

The Credo of 'Good Design': Morality as a Design Practice in the Academic Training of Information Designers

Isabella Kölz (Würzburg)

 

Making Sense of Social Involvement with Disadvantaged Apprentices – Narrative patterns of Stakeholders in Profit-Oriented Companies

Anke Bahl (Bonn)

 

Making the 'Social Business' Work: Developers' and Employees' Perspectives on a Moralized Setting of Hospitality

Lisa Szepan (Göttingen)

 

10.30–11.00 — BREAK

 

11.00–12.00 — PANEL IV

Conflicting Morals in NPO-Fundraising

Christine Hämmerling (Zürich)

 

Moral(ity) Matters? Backgrounds and Implications of Organized Civil Society Engagement in Germany in the Aftermath of the 'Brumadinho Dam Disaster' (Minas Gerais, Brazil)

Theresa Mentrup (Mainz)

 

12.00–13.30 — BREAK

 

13.30–14.30 — PANEL V

'Building Dream Ships.' Cruise Shipyards, Precarity and Self-Organisation in the Northern Adriatic

Janine Schemmer (Klagenfurt)

 

The Moral Economy of Leadership in the Global Shipping Industry

Marie Grasmeier (Bremen)

 

14.30–15.00 — CLOSING REMARKS

Irene Götz (München), Johannes Müske (Freiburg)