ABSTRACT
In previous chapters, we have argued for and shown how feminist scholarship can help us rethink the position of the worker in organizations in the globalized economy. We did this through considering the issues of language, discourse, visuality and movements of the body in and across organizations and in different geographical locations. We have also considered how external political forces, economic policies and social structures mould individuals’ subjectivities and how their lived experiences in and outside of formal organizations both support and subvert them. The common objective underpinning and connecting all the chapters in this book is to bring to bear on organizations the feminist goals of equality, empowerment, emancipation and inclusivity. Our belief is that only by assuring these conditions can we hope to promote flourishing of individuals in organizations and ensure our survival as societies in which all human beings can have liveable lives. In this chapter, we draw further on feminist theory to develop an organizational ethics of relationality. That is, we explain how the notion of subjectivity is meaningless without consideration of others because we cannot exist but in relation to others.
