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Elnahla, Nada and McKay, Ruth (2020) Workplace issues in the context of Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World: Mental health problems, cannabis and the division of labour. Transnational Corporations Review, 12 (2). pp. 106-125. ISSN 1918-6444
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/19186444.2020.1746598
Abstract
This paper examines the distinctive value of literature inside organisational theory, and howusing narratives as possible future scenarios can help both academics and managers considerthe consequences of mental health problems, the (mis)use of drugs, and the division of labourin the workplace. The paper adopts Aldous Huxley’s novelBrave New Worldfor this purpose.Another contribution of the paper is providing a model that offers managers a step-by-stepaction plan of how to use literary texts to study sensitive workplace issues, generating newknowledge which would ultimately help them to envision ways to act appropriately anddevelop future strategies.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Keywords: | Scenario planning; workplace mental health; cannabis; division of labour; organisational theory; critical theory; sciencefiction; Aldous Huxley; |
| Academic Unit: | Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Business |
| Item ID: | 17187 |
| Identification Number: | 10.1080/19186444.2020.1746598 |
| Depositing User: | Nada Elnahla |
| Date Deposited: | 15 May 2023 14:35 |
| Journal or Publication Title: | Transnational Corporations Review |
| Publisher: | Taylor & Francis (Routledge) |
| Refereed: | Yes |
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| URI: | https://mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/id/eprint/17187 |
| Use Licence: | This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here |
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