Managers as Androids: Reading Moral Agency in Philip Dick
借用菲利普·迪克的科幻小说，分析管理者如何因现代性而趋向道德冷漠（即“机器人化”），并探讨他们抵抗这一趋势、行使道德主体性的途径。
Philip Dick's science fiction (SF) offers a stimulating critique of modernity. One of his important themes was the gradual replacement of the empathy of humans with the cold logic of machines. Using Arendt (1964), Bauman (1991) and Tester (1997), I argue that managers are prone to moral indifference. This tendency was termed androidization by Dick, the transformation of human beings into machines. Through two novels and a film adaptation, I discuss how his characters combat this tendency, exercising moral agency. I point to the importance of identifying avenues for managers to resist their androidization.