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Situating the employee rights debate

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Theological ethics provides a framework for at least adequately resolving the dilemma inherent in the issue of employee rights: the tension between individual rights and organizational authority. The central question is what consitutes the human dignity of the worker. The Roman Catholic theological tradition centers on the concept of human dignity and recognizes the causal relationship between how one's social conditions are divided and structured and the realization of one's human dignity. The author discussed why and how this tradition provides a useful methodology for resolving the employee rights debate.

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Donald J. Kirby is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at the Le Moyne College of Syracuse, New York. He was previously Fellow at the Woodstock Theological Center, Georgetown University. His most important publication is Prophesy vs. Profits: An Investment Dilemma for the Churches, Orbis Books, Maryknoll, N.Y, 1980

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Kirby, D. Situating the employee rights debate. J Bus Ethics 4, 269–276 (1985). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00381768

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