Dignity and the Organization

Monika Kostera is Professor Ordinaria and Chair of Management at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland, and Professor and Chair in Management at Durham University, UK. She has authored and edited over 35 books in Polish and English, and a number of articles published in scholarly journals.  Michael Pirson is Associate Professor and Director of the Center for Humanistic Management at Fordham University, US. He is a Research Fellow at Harvard University, a distinguished fellow at Case Western Reserve University, and the Interim President of the Humanistic Management Network. He is a full member of the Club of Rome and has received various awards for his work, including from the Academy of Management.     

Introduction: Dignity and Organization (Michael Pirson and Monika Kostera).- Chapter 1: Dignity in organizing from the perspective of Hannah Arendt’s worldliness (Sissi Ingman).- Chapter 2: Dignity and membership: a route to the heart of how dignity is done in everyday interaction (Laura Mitchell).- Chapter 3: Dignity and species difference within organizations (Lindsay Hamilton and Laura Mitchell).- Chapter 4: Dignity at the level of the firm: beyond the stakeholder approach (Ricardo Aguado, Jose Luis Retolaza and Leire Alcaniz).- Chapter 5: Marx, alienation and the denial of dignity at work in the ICT sector (Michael Healy).- Chapter 6: Dignity restoration: the indirect goal of social enterprises’ activity (Aneta Milczarczyk).- Chapter 7: Dignity and leadership: Implications of leaders’ language and their assumptions of human nature (Greg Latemore).- Chapter 8: From Human Resource Management to Human Dignity Development: A Dignity perspective on HRM and the Role of Workplace Democracy (Matthijs Bal and Simon B. de Jong).- Chapter 9: Office Design and Dignity at Work in the Knowledge Economy (Ralitza Nikolaeva and Silvia Dello Russo).- Chapter 10: Dignity by design: A shift from formalistic to humanistic design in organization (Delia Mannen and Lorissa MacAllister).- Chapter 11: Concluding Remarks (Michael Pirson and Monika Kostera).