Managers as Androids: Reading Moral Agency in Philip Dick

Nidhi Srinivas

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Ethics in Business and Education Utopian, Dystopian, and Speculative Fiction Management and Organizational Studies

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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.

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