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Value in exchange

Kerry Jacobs (School of Business and Information Systems, Australian National University, Canberra ACT, Australia)

Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal

ISSN: 0951-3574

Article publication date: 18 September 2009

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Abstract

Purpose

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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

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Satirical poem.

Findings

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Employees risk being treated simply as depersonalised units of productive value.

Originality/value

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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

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Emerald Group Publishing Limited

Copyright © 2009, Emerald Group Publishing Limited

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