How Does Legal Status Inform Immigrant Agency During Encounters of Workplace Incivility?

IF 5.9 1区哲学 Q1 BUSINESS

Journal of Business Ethics Pub Date : 2024-07-24 DOI:10.1007/s10551-024-05776-y

Amal Abdellatif, Ajnesh Prasad

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Abstract

Workplace incivility is experienced ubiquitously by immigrants. While a growing body of literature has sought to identify the causes and the outcomes of this phenomenon, what remains largely underexplored is the role of legal status in configuring how workplace incivility manifests in the immigrant experience. To advance the extant literature, in this article we investigate the question: How does legal status inform the ways in which immigrants exercise agency in response to workplace incivility? In addressing this question, we draw on the methodological resources provided by duoethnography and develop vignettes to make visible the dynamics with workplace incivility that we have individually encountered in the academic organizations in which we have been located—based in the UK and Canada. In juxtaposing the vignettes against one another, we are offered a glimpse into how legal status shapes the forms and the depth of agency available to immigrants to respond to incidents of workplace incivility. In light of our findings, we problematize the nexus between an immigrant’s agency and workplace incivility as well as consider the implications this nexus has to ongoing debates in business ethics.

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在遭遇工作场所不礼貌行为时，法律地位如何影响移民机构？

工作场所的不文明现象对移民来说无处不在。虽然越来越多的文献试图找出这一现象的原因和结果，但在很大程度上，法律地位在决定工作场所不文明现象如何在移民经历中表现出来方面所起的作用仍未得到充分探讨。为了推动现有文献的发展，我们在本文中探讨了以下问题：法律地位如何影响移民在应对工作场所不文明行为时行使代理权的方式？为了解决这个问题，我们借鉴了双人人种学提供的方法论资源，并编写了一些小故事，以展示我们在英国和加拿大的学术组织中各自遇到的工作场所不文明现象。通过将这些小故事并列在一起，我们可以窥见法律地位如何影响移民应对工作场所不礼貌事件的形式和代理权的深度。根据我们的研究结果，我们对移民代理权与工作场所不文明行为之间的关系提出了质疑，并考虑了这种关系对当前商业道德辩论的影响。

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Journal of Business Ethics Multiple-

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12.80

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9.80%

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265

期刊介绍： The Journal of Business Ethics publishes only original articles from a wide variety of methodological and disciplinary perspectives concerning ethical issues related to business that bring something new or unique to the discourse in their field. Since its initiation in 1980, the editors have encouraged the broadest possible scope. The term `business'' is understood in a wide sense to include all systems involved in the exchange of goods and services, while `ethics'' is circumscribed as all human action aimed at securing a good life. Systems of production, consumption, marketing, advertising, social and economic accounting, labour relations, public relations and organisational behaviour are analysed from a moral viewpoint. The style and level of dialogue involve all who are interested in business ethics - the business community, universities, government agencies and consumer groups. Speculative philosophy as well as reports of empirical research are welcomed. In order to promote a dialogue between the various interested groups as much as possible, papers are presented in a style relatively free of specialist jargon.