Are you treated with dignity at work?
The quest for healthy, productive, and socially responsible workplaces starts by treating workers with basic dignity. For all too many, however, the notion that one is entitled to be treated with dignity at work remains a somewhat revolutionary concept. It’s time to change that worldview, which is especially prevalent in the United States.
If you’d like to see a short New Workplace Institute paper I presented on worker dignity, go here (pdf file):
http://www.newworkplaceinstitute.org/docs/nwi_yamada_imagining_4_07_rev.pdf
If you’re in the mood for a long law review article on human dignity and employment law in the U.S., go here for an abstract and link to download the full article (pdf):
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1299176
Dignity at Work will be a recurring theme in Minding the Workplace. Welcome!
