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Edited By
Sharon Bolton, Sharon Bolton is Professor of Organizational Analysis at Strathclyde University Business School.
Description
What is dignity in and at work?
How is it experienced differently by different groups of working people?
Are there enduring divisions
of dignity: unequal access to what is accepted to be a fundamental human right?
How can we ensure that continued opportunities are available
for the creation, maintenance and restoration of dignity at work?
This edited collection of papers investigates the concept of dignity
and what it means to people in their working lives: how we are perceived and valued as people in the workplace.
Contributors to over
a century of social and organizational analysis have talked about dignity at work, but the discussion has tended to take place under
headings such as citizenship, satisfaction, mutuality, pride in work, responsible autonomy and ontological security, or to focus on mismanagement,
over-long hours, a poor working environment, workplace bullying and harassment as the central facilitator of indignity at work.
Dignity
in and at work is a far more complex phenomenon than these representations would suggest. Neither is it enough to suggest that equal
opportunity, work life balance and anti-bullying policies restore dignity to work, valuable interventions though they are in themselves.
The papers featured in this edited collection suggest that we see dignity reordered and experienced in different ways depending on our
own circumstances and viewpoints.
Audience
Managers at all levels
HR professionals
Business and management/sociology students
Academics
Policy makers and research bodies
Contents
DEFINING DIGNITY Dignity in and at Work: Why It Matters; Dignity, Esteem and Moral Economy of Organizations; Dirt, Work and Dignity;
DIGNITY, WORK AND THE POLITICAL ECONOMY Respect at Work: Why Good Work Matters; Is Good Work Productive Work?; Dignified Work and the
UK Informal Economy; DIGNITY IN WORKPLACE PRACTICE Organizational Citizenship and Dignity at Work; The Times Top 100 Companies to Work
For: Is This the Best 'Best Practice' Can Do?; Information Technology at Work: The Contradictory Consequences for Dignity; Working Together
Towards Dignity at Work; 'Is That Something We Used to Do in the 70s?': The Demise of 'Good Work' in the Volvo Corporation.
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Paperback, 288 pages, publication date: JUN-2007
ISBN-13: 978-0-7506-8333-3
ISBN-10: 0-7506-8333-3
Imprint: BUTTERWORTH HEINEMANN
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