Implementing Workplace Dignity in Organizations

Abstract

This chapter discusses the main theoretical perspectives through which dignity can be linked to other concepts in organizations, including stakeholder theory. Subsequently, the chapter discusses how dignity relates to utopian ideas about work, and defines the roles of meaning and participation in relation to dignity. It also discusses dignity and short-term and long-term relationships, after which the concept of dignity is implemented in organization studies, and how it revives and enrichens existing terminology in organization studies.