Friends would hereby be included in the first category of Aristotle's friendships, the friendship of utility: one develops friendships with fellow colleagues in order to ensure that these friends develop and, more importantly, communicate, a positive image of the individual in the organization.
Part from this, one can also have a friendship of pleasure in the workplace. Team building actions or simple after work meetings for a Happy Hour could be such an example. However, there is a significant problem with both this category of friendship, following Aristotle's scheme, and with that of the friendship of the characters, the most profound form: the relationship with the office is too strong to allow these two types of friendships to develop.
Indeed, the friendship for pleasure or the friendship of the characters will have a hard time striving because of the fact that politics in the workplace continue to remain important in order for an individual to be able to be happy, that is, to be able to ensure that he is in a position in the organization that encourages him to use his intellect, to participate in the organizational activities and to be recognized for that. More often than not, because of these aspects, true, character friendships in the office are difficult to appear and, even more so, to successfully exist.
The question of justice in the workplace can be similarly tied into Aristotle's concepts, as previously presented. An unjust act, for example, would be that of launching a false rumor in the workplace. This act would be unjust, following the Aristotelian concepts, because of at least two separate reasons. First of all, it would be unjust as an act through which the individual who commits it wants to achieve a profit for himself. In that sense, second of all, it is also unjust because it wants to achieve a profit while unjustly hurting another individual in the organization. Similarly to the example that Aristotle gives, such a situation creates harm to someone with the selfish purpose of obtaining gains for oneself.
What has been pointed out here with regards to the politics and relations that are likely to be formed in the office are, in fact,...
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