Value in exchange
Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal
ISSN: 0951-3574
Article publication date: 18 September 2009
Abstract
Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to comment on the apparent conflict between the practice of treating people as commodities on the one hand, and recognising their personal uniqueness and high value on the other.
Design/methodology/approach
Satirical poem.
Findings
Employees risk being treated simply as depersonalised units of productive value.
Originality/value
Points to the attitude of regarding people indifferently at work.
Keywords
Citation
Jacobs, K. (2009), "Value in exchange", Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal, Vol. 22 No. 7, pp. 1149-1149. https://doi.org/10.1108/09513570910987420
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
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