{"id":1663,"date":"2014-05-12T16:25:25","date_gmt":"2014-05-12T20:25:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.principletopractice.org\/?page_id=1663"},"modified":"2025-05-05T16:08:53","modified_gmt":"2025-05-05T20:08:53","slug":"organizations-and-disrespect","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.principletopractice.org\/wordpress\/from-principle-to-practice\/organizations-and-disrespect\/","title":{"rendered":"Organizations and Disrespect"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Disrespect is felt as humiliation. Humiliation is the violent or aggressive assertion of hierarchy. It is putting someone in their place, a place below the humiliator. Much violence, both that directed outwardly onto others and that directed inward onto ourselves, is a direct product of humiliation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>Organizations and Disrespect<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Attitudes of disrespect can be displayed by organizations in their policies and procedures as well, not just individuals.<\/p>\n<p>Organizations often agree to divide areas up among themselves to provide more \u201cefficiency\u201d. When these divisions also map onto existing political or identity group or conflict lines, the organizations can be seen to be taking a side. This often looks to people as though the organizations are participating in the political competition.<\/p>\n<p>Organizational operating principles can emphasize competition in some areas. Efforts to secure funding are often explicitly described as competitive. This attitude can seep out into other areas of an organization, such as around efforts to secure \u201cgood press\u201d, and into relationships with communities.<\/p>\n<p>Some organizations mandate that international and local staff interact in certain ways. In some cases, there are clear physical barriers. Local staff on the ground floor and international staff on the floor above. Drivers not allowed to pass a certain point in a compound.<\/p>\n<p>Organizational policies on security can be perceived as disrespect. In some situations, international staff of organizations have been prevented from interacting with local people altogether! This shows indifference and leads to backlash.<\/p>\n<p>All of these demonstrate the dividing mindset.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, though this is seldom mandated by an organization\u2019s policies or procedures, responding aggressively and belligerently to challenges by communities, colleagues, donors, or the press also emphasizes the dividing mindset.<\/p>\n<p class=\"box\">Previous Page <a href=\"https:\/\/www.principletopractice.org\/wordpress\/from-principle-to-practice\/disrespect-through-indifference\/\" title=\"Disrespect through Indifference\">Disrespect through Indifference<\/a><br \/>\nNext Page <a href=\"https:\/\/www.principletopractice.org\/wordpress\/from-principle-to-practice\/collaboration-and-respect\/\" title=\"Collaboration and cooperation as expressions of Respect\">Collaboration and cooperation as expressions of Respect<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Related Topics<br \/>\n<a title=\"Positive Patterns of Behavior based in Respect\" href=\"http:\/\/www.principletopractice.org\/from-principle-to-practice\/positive-patterns-of-behavior-based-in-respect\/\">Positive Patterns of Behavior based in Respect<\/a><br \/>\n<a title=\"Disrespect through hostile Competition\" href=\"http:\/\/www.principletopractice.org\/from-principle-to-practice\/disrespect-through-hostile-competition\/\">Disrespect through hostile Competition<\/a><br \/>\n<a title=\"Disrespect through Suspicion\" href=\"http:\/\/www.principletopractice.org\/from-principle-to-practice\/disrespect-through-suspicion\/\">Disrespect through Suspicion<\/a><br \/>\n<a title=\"Disrespect through Aggression, Anger, and Belligerence\" href=\"http:\/\/www.principletopractice.org\/from-principle-to-practice\/disrespect-through-aggression-anger-and-belligerence\/\">Disrespect through Aggression, Anger, and Belligerence<\/a><br \/>\n<a title=\"Using Respect\" href=\"http:\/\/www.principletopractice.org\/from-principle-to-practice\/using-respect\/\">Using Respect<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Disrespect is felt as humiliation. Humiliation is the violent or aggressive assertion of hierarchy. It is putting someone in their place, a place below the humiliator. Much violence, both that directed outwardly onto others and that directed inward onto ourselves, is a direct product of humiliation. Organizations and Disrespect Attitudes of disrespect can be displayed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":7,"menu_order":10901,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1663","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.principletopractice.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.principletopractice.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.principletopractice.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.principletopractice.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.principletopractice.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1663"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.principletopractice.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1663\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2682,"href":"https:\/\/www.principletopractice.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1663\/revisions\/2682"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.principletopractice.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.principletopractice.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}