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Changing Values of Work

In: Business Ethics and Organizational Values

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  • Ole Thyssen

    (Copenhagen Business School)

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Over the past hundred years, there has been a change in the values that regulate the relationship between employers and employees. From being class enemies, they have become parties and even partners. Whereas ‘the workers’ around the previous turn of the century were kept at work by means of force and a carrot whose only name was money, the irresponsible workers have now become responsible employees, who work on their own initiative and for their own benefit.1 External coercion has been replaced by inner necessity — by pleasure and vice. In turn, the managing director, as an intermediary between the two parties, has stopped making direct threats and appears kindly as priest, pedagogue and coach. Employers and employees might not love each other. But the trench warfare has been replaced by the realization that they need each other and are subject to the same necessity. They can now speak of shared values within a shared framework.

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  • Ole Thyssen, 2009. "Changing Values of Work," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Business Ethics and Organizational Values, chapter 8, pages 131-154, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-25093-2_8
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230250932_8
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