Overview
- Explores the rapidly growing gig economy through the lenses of ethics, fairness and care
- Calls for the humanistic perspective to be embedded in the management of gig workers
- A global set of experts explore cases from South Korea and the underrepresented global south
Part of the book series: Humanism in Business Series (HUBUS)
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Keywords
- Location-based Gig work
- Platform Economy
- Decent Work
- Precarity of Work
- New Forms of Work
- africa
- south america
About this book
Gig-workers are often not regarded as employees by the platforms they work with. Yet they do not always have all the freedoms enjoyed by independent contractors. The world of work is changing, and this is one area in which the new realities need to be better understood in order to promote human dignity, protect the vulnerable and foster flourishing. To achieve this, justice and fairness need to be researched and innovatively translated into new forms of work in diverse ways and in various cultures. This edited collection explores and examines ways in which the humanistic management and fairness considerations help to humanise the way gig-workers are treated, with particular attention paid to economies in the global south.
Countries represented in the case study section are Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Kenya, Nigeria, South Korea, and Uganda, and both traditional and innovative lenses of fairness and ethics are applied to these new forms of work. The book will be of great interest to scholars and students of work and employment, digital business, human resource management and business ethics.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Kemi Ogunyemi is Professor of Business Ethics at Lagos Business School, Pan-Atlantic University, Nigeria, where she also teaches managerial anthropology, self-leadership and sustainability management. She was for many years the director of the Christopher Kolade Centre for Research in Leadership and Ethics as well as the academic director for the School’s Senior Management Programme. Her consulting and research interests include personal ethos, work–life ethic, social responsibility, sustainability, governance and anti-corruption risk assessment.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Humanistic Management in the Gig Economy
Book Subtitle: Dignity, Fairness and Care
Editors: Kemi Ogunyemi
Series Title: Humanism in Business Series
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Business and Management, Business and Management (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2024
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-59943-9Due: 10 October 2024
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-59946-0Due: 10 October 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-59944-6Due: 10 October 2024
Series ISSN: 2662-124X
Series E-ISSN: 2662-1258
Edition Number: 1
Number of Illustrations: 20 illustrations in colour