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Dear MSR colleagues,
I would like to invite you to the seminar held by the Northumbria University "Meaning
and Spirituality At Work" research group on 7 December 2022 at 2pm GMT. (UK).
If you are interested to attend, please email n.burton@northumbria.ac.uk for the TEAMS link
The seminar will be presented by Sally Wightman and details are as follows:
Meaningfulness and tradition in the third sector
Sally will be presenting findings from her PhD thesis which investigates how tradition influences the meaningfulness employees gain from their work, using a comparative case study approach featuring Christian and secular youth homelessness charities in the UK. Recent research has argued that the literature on 'calling' contains a range of interpretations of the concept and this divergence can be understood using Alasdair MacIntyre's notion of tradition-constituted rationality (Wightman, Potts and Beadle, 2022). Through the use of a range of interviews at three youth homelessness charities, each with a different attitude towards tradition in the workplace, the study being presented in this seminar builds on this research by looking at how tradition among other ideas from MacIntyre's moral philosophy such as practices and narrativity apply to the field of meaningful work. In particular, the study considers the temporarily of meaningfulness, power and meaningful work, and the tensions between objective and subjective sources of meaning.
Wightman, S., Potts, G. & Beadle, R. (2022). 'Whose Call?' The Conflict Between Tradition-Based and Expressivist Accounts of Calling. Journal of Business Ethics, 1-16.
Biography
Sally Wightman is currently a postgraduate researcher coming to the end of her PhD. Her research interests predominantly lie in meaningful work and MacIntyrean business ethics, with her empirical work largely conducted within the context of faith-based organisations. Sally has published in the Journal of Business Ethics on the topic of 'work as a calling' and is also involved with the Management, Spirituality and Religion community at the Academy of Management. She teaches in HRM and responsible business and has experience working in the charity sector.
Take care
Nicholas Burton
MSR Chair 2022-23
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