What is it about?
Human dignity is a fundamental experience, and work remains a major part of people's lives. This paper outlines the creation of a measure of workplace dignity, which can be used by researchers studying employees' lives and by companies seeking to improve the experiences of their employees on the job.
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Why is it important?
Although many scholars or leaders discuss and make claims about worker dignity, no one has been able to measure dignity at work. Our 18-item scale is simple to administer and provides quantitative information on the levels of dignity--according to multiple facets--experienced by workers. Thus, those seeking to understand or affect the dignity of employees can now use a valid scale to assess and evaluate their efforts to do so.
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Describing and emphasizing any workplace experience requires a shared definition and a valid way to measure the experience. For the first time, applied and scholastic questions about workplace dignity can now be addressed using a valid scale.
Benjamin Thomas
University of Nebraska at Omaha
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This page is a summary of: Development and Validation of the Workplace Dignity Scale, Group & Organization Management, October 2018, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/1059601118807784.
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