Abstract
Many roles are situated within organizations. The occupants of these roles often confront a dilemma between (i) the occupancy conditions, performance conditions, and functions of the role, as bestowed upon the role by the organization’s decision-making procedures, and (ii) the occupancy conditions, performance conditions, and function that the role should ideally have. This chapter argues that this dilemma should be resolved in favour of (ii). Yet this does not require forgoing role-based considerations in favour of extra-role considerations. Instead, we should conceptualize organizationally specified roles as being one token of an underlying role-type. The underlying role-type provides the organizational role-token with its fundamental occupancy conditions, performance conditions, and function. When the token is a poor instance of its type, organizational roleoccupants have obligations—grounded in the fundamental aspects of the role—to challenge this. These are role obligations that call upon one to alter one’s role obligations.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | The Ethics of Social Roles |
Editors | Alex Barber, Sean Cordell |
Place of Publication | Oxford Uk |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Chapter | 10 |
Pages | 200-216 |
Number of pages | 17 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9780192843562 |
ISBN (Print) | 9780192843562 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2023 |