Making People Grow A New Understanding of Organisational Ethics With Deleuze and Guattari

This chapter aims to introduce Gilles Deleuze and F. Guattari and focuses on the concepts of becoming, becoming-minority and desire, to build a conceptual and analytical framework which form an ‘ethics of becoming’. Five organisational typologies have been detected: blind organisation; greedy organisation; opaque organisation; gendered organisation; and organisation that cares. The greedy organisation takes a lot of people’s time and energy, but with little reward. The organisation that cares for the subjects whose flows are engaged in it, listens to its employees, and cares for their development, by ensuring they have adequate opportunities and are able to seize them. Overall, an ethics of becoming as developed here should help to understand how actual organisational practices impact on individuals’ work and career pathways inside and across organisations. Analysing the flows of becoming of the individuals in the organisation and of the organisation itself allows understanding of the ethicality of the organisation.