Episode 199: Re-humanizing the Organization

About this episode

Dr. Mark French discusses the impact of organizational dehumanization on leadership and safety.

In the first episode of Leading & Learning Through Safety for 2026, Dr. Mark French explores a challenging but critical topic: organizational dehumanization and its direct impact on leadership, safety, and human dignity at work. Drawing from a December 2025 Journal of Applied Psychology article titled “Seeing the Good in the Bad: A Self-Affirmation Model for Organizational Dehumanization,” the episode examines whether any redeeming outcomes can exist in workplaces that treat people as num...

People in this episode

Host: Mark French

Topics covered

• organizational dehumanization
• leadership
• safety
• human dignity

Keywords

• self-affirmation
• workplace culture
• psychology

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Re-humanizing the Organization, Leading & Learning Through Safety for 2026, Seeing the Good in the Bad: A Self-Affirmation Model for Organizational Dehumanization

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