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dehumanization  

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  • Dehumanization stands at the heart of modern organizations and their management, in the sense that the term means to deprive someone of human qualities such as individuality, compassion, or civility, especially by rendering them mechanical and routine. From the outset, in Frederick Taylor's program for making modern management, this aim was central. [Source: International Encyclopedia of Organization Studies; Dehumanization]

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