DEHUMANIZATION – A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW AND RESEARCH AGENDA

Abstract

Dehumanization as a concept has drawn more attention from academics and practitioners recently due to its effects on emotional tiredness, work satisfaction, and turnover intention. This paper's goals are to perform a thorough analysis of the body of research on dehumanization, assess the state of the field, pinpoint study areas, and make recommendations for future directions in the field. The authors of this work employed thematic coding to identify the present research streams in dehumanization studies and provided recommendations for future research using systematic review methodologies.

Through research synthesis, the antecedents and moderators/mediators of dehumanization were identified. The review of literature also identified geographic representation of dehumanization research, methodological approaches to explore dehumanization, and the prominent theories adopted to investigate dehumanization. The authors then discovered five study areas where dehumanization has been primarily examined. Lastly, the authors offer recommendations for possible directions for future dehumanization research. One of the few that provides a thorough analysis of the literature on dehumanization and identifies uncharted territory for further study is this one.