Moral Aspects of Workplace Change: An Indian Literary Context

Nidhi Kaushal ()
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Nidhi Kaushal: Indian Institute of Technology

Chapter Chapter 16 in The Palgrave Handbook of Change and Resilience at Work, 2025, pp 335-361 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract The concepts of morality and ethical conduct are significantly and substantially related to each other; morality enriches the employee’s extensibility and overall personality, while ethical work upholds the dignity of the workplace. A variety of literature on morality comprehensively illustrates the framework of righteousness in human life via all of its facets, but above all, it regulates, elevates, and promotes its tasks. The workplace gives an individual an environment to carry out various tasks, and its ongoing evolution also influences their capacity, way of thinking, and manner of working; ultimately, their moral principles are the only factors that truly motivate them to advance. This chapter discusses the interconnected moral elements of the workplace, which employees must consider in its evolving structure, and outlines the importance of morality and ethical behavior within it. It also emphasizes how important spirituality is in working life since it provides one the strength to make tough decisions about whether or not to do something. While firmly supporting the ideologies of morality in it, this study recognizes the importance of selflessness in service at work and in its changing environment, the function of spiritual beliefs, the value of dutifulness, and the preservation of rights.

Keywords: Dharma; Dutifulness; Ethics; Culture; Morality; Selflessness; Spirituality; Workplace (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-91493-5_16

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