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2025 AOM Annual Meeting

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Session: 25955: Happiness and Harmony: Transcendence, Morality, and Business

16978: Making Transcendent Moments Possible: The Role of Mutual Vulnerability and Risky Offers (session 25955)

Sunday, July 27, 2025
10:15 - 11:45 CEST (GMT+2)
Location: Bella Center: Hall B- B2-m5
Session Type: Paper Session
Shareable link: https://cdmcd.co/WyxAWE
This paper examines how mutual vulnerability fosters transcendent moments in the workplace. Using data from a study involving interviews with middle managers and reflective diaries from students, we explore how “risky offers” - acts of reaching out with vulnerability - enable individuals to move beyond transactional relationships and cultivate profound connections. Drawing on Honneth’s theory of recognition and Ricoeur’s concept of ethical responsibility, we show that transcendent moments often emerge when individuals take personal risks that bridge formal roles and align personal values with collective goals. We extend theories of workplace transcendence by illustrating that such moments are frequently sparked through spontaneous acts of recognition rather than formal policies and that organizational norms both inhibit and enable mutual vulnerability; ethically grounded connections arise when employees step beyond professional boundaries.

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