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This chapter discusses how dignity work can be undertaken in organizations to enhance dignity in the workplace, and to materialize the potential of dignity. It explains how the role of education is important in realizing more dignified organizations. It introduces reversed logic of hypernormalization as a key strategy not only for academics but for practitioners as well to understand how dignity may inform current practices, and how it may reverse organizational norms towards more dignified workplaces. Bal discusses how this may result in more dignified actions to counteract neoliberalism and individualism .
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Bal, M. (2017). Moving Forward with Dignity. In: Dignity in the Workplace. Humanism in Business Series. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-55245-3_9
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