Dignity At Work

Klappentext Dignity at Work describes workers' efforts to maintain and defend their dignity in the workplace. Zusammenfassung Dignity at Work describes workers' efforts to maintain and defend their dignity in the workplace in the face of management abuse and incompetence! unreasonable work demands! incursions on autonomy! and manipulative programs of worker participation. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part I. Dignity and its Challenges: 1. Four faces of dignity; 2. Toward a theory of dignity; 3. Measuring the subtle realms of work; Part II. The Practice of Dignity: 4. Deflecting abuse and mismanagement; 5. Confronting overwork; 6. Defending autonomy; 7. Negotiating employee involvement; 8. Coworkers - for better or worse; Part III. The Future of Dignity: 9. Worker dignity and well-being; 10. Dignity, agency, and the future of work.

Product details

• Authors: Randy Hodson, Randy (Ohio State University) Hodson
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 10.09.2001
• EAN: 9780521771313
• ISBN: 978-0-521-77131-3
• No. of pages: 334
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories