著者

高浦 康有

出版者

日本経営倫理学会

雑誌

日本経営倫理学会誌 (ISSN:13436627)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.19, pp.179-185, 2012-01-31 (Released:2017-08-08)

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This paper builds on the methodology of CMS(critical management studies), while using the analytical framework of H.A.Simon's modern organization theory. It specifically investigates the case of crush accident on the pedestrian bridge at the fireworks event in Akashi City 2001 on secondary materials such as news articles about judgments in the court. It analyses how various organizations like the city administrators, police and security company were related to cross-organizational decision-making on restricting/unrestricting flows of pedestrians to avoid the accident. A structural gap of responsibility in organizational decision-making process can be reviled as well as systematic oppression that modern organizations inevitably include, such as inhibition of the autonomous decisions of individuals, which 'value-neutral' management theory could not make explicit.

著者

高浦 康有

出版者

日本経営倫理学会

雑誌

日本経営倫理学会誌 (ISSN:13436627)

巻号頁・発行日

no.19, pp.179-185, 2012-01-31

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This paper builds on the methodology of CMS(critical management studies), while using the analytical framework of H.A.Simon's modern organization theory. It specifically investigates the case of crush accident on the pedestrian bridge at the fireworks event in Akashi City 2001 on secondary materials such as news articles about judgments in the court. It analyses how various organizations like the city administrators, police and security company were related to cross-organizational decision-making on restricting/unrestricting flows of pedestrians to avoid the accident. A structural gap of responsibility in organizational decision-making process can be reviled as well as systematic oppression that modern organizations inevitably include, such as inhibition of the autonomous decisions of individuals, which 'value-neutral' management theory could not make explicit.

著者

高浦 康有

出版者

日本経営倫理学会

雑誌

日本経営倫理学会誌 (ISSN:13436627)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.16, pp.183-189, 2009

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In recent years some big companies like Toyota, Toshiba and McDonald's have faced with worker-related lawsuits such as death from overwork (karoshi) and unpaid overtime work. So far, Japanese companies have not taken sufficient social responsibilities for workers rights, compared to other stakeholders such as consumers and communities, as workers have been given less hierarchical status. In this paper, on the base of the concept of the "right to seek moral approval," the relationship between workers and companies will be reviewed where goodwill and loyalty to their organization are kept, while they want to raise some objection to their organization from a sense of justice. In this paper seeking the approval of their moral identity means to make the organization admit their own existence, including a moral dimension at the premise of overwhelming inequalities of power. And unlike the conventional labor movement, this approach has a personal political orientation in the sense that it is laid on the base of the individual and eventually it may be developed with the possibility to challenge the existing system and order. It is also important to understand that this act for moral approval will be exercised as rights in a legal struggle.