"Exploring dehumanization and humanization in organizational contexts"
Abstract
Humanization and dehumanization broadly refer to the attribution or denial of ‘humanness’ to others: traits that make up the ‘human essence’ or make humans unique from other animals. There has been a recent surge of psychological research demonstrating the importance of humanization and dehumanization across many phenomena. However, (de)humanization is typically entwined with a variety of related constructs (e.g., mind perception, objectification), leading to a lack of conceptual clarity. Additionally, despite the close attention paid to dehumanization and humanization in the psychological sciences, the extension of these concepts to organizational scholarship has been limited. Some of the questions we will discuss include: How should scholars define humanization and dehumanization, and how do we distinguish these constructs from mind perception, objectification, and anthropomorphism? Which organizational contexts/processes are most likely to motivate people to (de)humanize others, or even themselves? What are some barriers to the application of (de)humanization to organizational research?
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