The Just World Fallacy as a Challenge to the Business-As-Community Thesis
指出心理学中的“公正世界谬误”挑战了将企业类比为亚里士多德式政治社群的观点,并探讨如何在组织中构建真正的社群关系。
The notion that business organizations are akin to Aristotelian political communities has been a central feature of research into virtue ethics in business. In this article, I begin by outlining this “community thesis” and go on to argue that psychological research into the “just world fallacy” presents it with a significant challenge. The just world fallacy undermines our ability to implement an Aristotelian conception of justice, to each as he or she is due, and imperils the relational equality required for shared participation in communities. In the final section, I offer a description of what Aristotelian community might look like within organizations, and some suggestions about how it may be possible to resist the challenge posed by the just world fallacy.