Responsible and heroic management of workplace privacy: A critical view of ICT management

The first example of the application of CRIS in the previous chapter took a novel approach by combining a Habermasian and a Foucauldian analysis and by using different types of data for the investigation of emancipatory faculties of ICT in a particular developing country, namely Egypt. This chapter takes a very different approach. It takes a conceptual approach and concentrates on some of the salient topics of critical work: rationality and management. Using the link between ethics and critical research, I will argue that traditional management is not capable of discharging responsibility for morally relevant issues, such as employee surveillance. The chapter thus offers a critique of some of the implicit tenets of mainstream IS research such as the desirability of management and the possibility of improving it by technical means.