Xu, Jing;
Smyth, hedley;
(2023)
The ethics of care and wellbeing in project business: from instrumentality to relationality.
International Journal of Project Management
, 41
(1)
, Article 102431. 10.1016/j.ijproman.2022.11.004.
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Abstract
Critical scholars have increasingly problematised the mainstream wellbeing management approach for being overly instrumental and normative. To address wellbeing issues requires reconstructing value in project business, which may involve challenging the dominant ethical theories and the transactional business model to include wellbeing as a legitimate objective of value creation in projects. In this essay, we advocate the ethics of care as an alternative ethical theory in project studies. The aim is to introduce its key tenets and discuss the implications for managing wellbeing in project businesses. From a care perspective, a relational belief system can be fostered through a dialogic process supported by relationship management, leadership and a transformational business model. In doing so, caring as an attitude and process is introduced and from a scholarly and practitioner standpoint, we begin to develop capabilities to support the individual wellbeing in project business.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | The ethics of care and wellbeing in project business: from instrumentality to relationality |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.ijproman.2022.11.004 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijproman.2022.11.004 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2022 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/bync-nd/4.0/). |
| Keywords: | Employee wellbeing, Ethics of care, Project business, Relationship management, Wellbeing management |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10160128 |
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