Building on the liberatory aspirations for management education promoted by Boyce, the authors have devised a classroom exercise to illustrate our unconscious participation in the reorganization of employment. The exercise is designed to interest students in critical theory as an approach to learning that encourages asking challenging questions of our organizations and of ourselves. It may be used as a precursor to wider discussions about what responsibilities we each have for the well-being of other human beings and how various life circumstances influence our decisions and our emotions.
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