Hancock, Philip
Employee recognition programmes: An imminent critique - Organization - 31(2), Mar, 2024: p.381-401
In this article I present a critical reading of employee recognition programmes. I utilize an immanent approach, drawing on the same principles that it is claimed underpin such programmes, namely the desire of needful subjects for recognition in the form of self-respect and esteem, and an anticipation of the organizational relations that are themselves a prerequisite for such recognition. These principles are articulated through a reading of Axel Honneth’s critical theory of intersubjective recognition as a necessary condition for what he refers to as fulfilled self-realization and social freedom. In doing so, I suggest that, rather than facilitating the conditions and benefits of intersubjective recognition, internal pathological tendencies towards reification, disrespect and compelled identification result in such programmes undermining the ontological conditions necessary for recognition to flourish, threatening both individual and organizational harm. – Reproduced
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/13505084221098244
Employee Recognition Programmes, Critical Reading Immanent Approach Needful Subjects Recognition Self-Respect Esteem Organizational Relations Axel Honneth Critical Theory Intersubjective Recognition Fulfilled Self-Realization Social Freedom Reification Disrespect Compelled Identification Ontological Conditions Individual Harm Organizational Harm
Employee recognition programmes: An imminent critique - Organization - 31(2), Mar, 2024: p.381-401
In this article I present a critical reading of employee recognition programmes. I utilize an immanent approach, drawing on the same principles that it is claimed underpin such programmes, namely the desire of needful subjects for recognition in the form of self-respect and esteem, and an anticipation of the organizational relations that are themselves a prerequisite for such recognition. These principles are articulated through a reading of Axel Honneth’s critical theory of intersubjective recognition as a necessary condition for what he refers to as fulfilled self-realization and social freedom. In doing so, I suggest that, rather than facilitating the conditions and benefits of intersubjective recognition, internal pathological tendencies towards reification, disrespect and compelled identification result in such programmes undermining the ontological conditions necessary for recognition to flourish, threatening both individual and organizational harm. – Reproduced
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/13505084221098244
Employee Recognition Programmes, Critical Reading Immanent Approach Needful Subjects Recognition Self-Respect Esteem Organizational Relations Axel Honneth Critical Theory Intersubjective Recognition Fulfilled Self-Realization Social Freedom Reification Disrespect Compelled Identification Ontological Conditions Individual Harm Organizational Harm