Working for someone involves a balancing act between giving up one’s own moral identity and taking on the identity of the good worker – the company man/woman – on the one hand and refusing to integrate into the workplace, becoming alienated and disgruntled on the other. At one extreme you have the Yes-man/woman who fails to impose their own standards on their behaviour in the workplace and at the other extreme you have Herman Melville’s character, Bartleby the Scrivener, who prefers not to do what he is supposed to do even to the extreme of starving himself to death in prison. This talk examines professionalism, and moral integrity in the context of this question of how wholeheartedly to adopt the identity that makes you a compliant worker.
Duration:
2 Hours
Fee:
€250