Working like a machine or a beast: Exploring mechanistic and animalistic dehumanization in organizations

This research explores for the first time whether the two forms of organizational dehumaniza-tion (i.e., mechanistic and animalistic) are empirically distinct as well as their relationships with employees’ well-being (i.e., decreased job satisfaction), attitudes (i.e., increased turnover inten-tions), and behaviors (i.e., decreased in-role performance). Three cross-sectional field studies in-volving employees...