Keywords
dignity
university
neoliberalism
performance management
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Abstract
This paper presents the results of initial research about the dignity of people starting their career in a Polish university. Polish PhD students and junior academics are situated in a transitional stage between the feudalism and neo-liberalism as well as academial “independency” and “dependency,” which might contribute to the politicization of their work identity. What is the impact of those ambivalent work conditions on their dignity? In the article I describe the neo-liberal changes in the Polish higher education, analyze the dignity in the workplace from the humanistic management perspective and present the results of qualitative pilot study.
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