Organizational dehumanization : toward a better understanding of its nomological network
(2023)
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- Departing from the traditional employee-organization relationship paradigm which has mainly viewed the organization as a neutral or benevolent actor, scholars have recently begun to acknowledge that the organization can also be the source of harmful and malevolent treatments. In this regard, increased attention has been devoted to the construct of organizational dehumanization, defined as the experience of an employee who feels treated like a tool or instrument for the organization’s ends. However, despite a growing number of studies focusing on this concept, our understanding of it remains somewhat limited. Therefore, the objective of the present thesis is to extend the nomological network of organizational dehumanization. To this end, we first develop and validate a five-item short scale of organizational dehumanization. Next, we explore how employees’ perceptions of organizational dehumanization evolved during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, an unprecedented large-scale crisis that triggered profound societal, economic, and psychological disruptions. We then examine the deleterious consequences that organizational dehumanization entails for employees’ well-being, attitudes toward the organization, work-related behaviors, and relational others (i.e., subordinates and family members). Lastly, we investigate the mechanisms underlying these detrimental consequences.
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UCLouvain SSH/IPSY - Psychological Sciences Research Institute
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Lagios, C. (2023). Organizational dehumanization : toward a better understanding of its nomological network. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/103335