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Enriching the Organizational Context of Chronic Illness Experience Through an Ethics of Care Perspective

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A growing epidemic of chronic illness in working populations contributes to a negative spiral of work and organizational outcomes including increased absenteeism, prolonged disability or illness claims, early work termination, and non-voluntary unemployment. Chronic illness, characterized by fluctuating trends in clinical and embodied experience along a prolonged time course, is intersubjectively experienced within a social context, and variably responded to and managed within and between organizations and countries. Drawing from global health, we discuss chronic illness experience and organizations as context for chronic illness experience. We then propose a model of ‘organizational caregiving,’ highlighting how invested relational understanding, attitude, intent, and acts of care can enrich the work and organizational experiences of employees with chronic illness.

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Abbreviations

HRM:

Human Resource Management

OECD:

Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development

WHO:

World Health Organization

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Funding was provided by Ministry of Higher Education, Malaysia (Grant No. FRGS/2/2013/SS05/MUSM/02/5).

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  2. School of Business and Law, Edith Cowan University, 270 Joondalup Drive, Joondalup, WA, 6027, Australia

    Uma Jogulu

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Vijayasingham, L., Jogulu, U. & Allotey, P. Enriching the Organizational Context of Chronic Illness Experience Through an Ethics of Care Perspective. J Bus Ethics 153, 29–40 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-016-3362-9

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