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Indian freelancers’ experiences of bullying on online labour markets: insights into digital workplaces in the informal economy
(2018)
This chapter reports a pioneering study on workplace bullying in digital workplaces, taking the field in a new direction. In addition, it makes further contributions by providing insights on the interface between emotional ...
Beauty service workers’encounters with abusive customers: furthering the concept of external bullying at work
(Springer, 2018)
This chapter brings novel theoretical contributions that advance the concept of external bullying at work. Based on a hermeneutic phenomenological study aimed at understanding the lived experiences of beauty service workers ...
Abuse faced by child labourers: Novel territory in workplace bullying
(Springer, 2018)
As well as presenting the first empirical study on workplace bullying in the context of child labour, this chapter extends the substantive area through its focus on the agricultural sector, the rural economy and non-standard ...
Workplace bullying, emotional abuse and harassment in the context of dirty Work
(Springer, 2018)
Dirty work is marked by the intersection of tainted work, marginalized social identities and difficult work environments characterized by precarity and sometimes obscure legal status of occupations. These multiple factors ...
Surviving workplace bullying, emotional abuse and harassment
(Springer, 2018)
Though workplace bullying is an extreme social stressor that inflicts severe harm on targets, the latter deploy overt, covert, embodied, routine and formal resistance, either as single or joint strategies, to tackle the ...
Cyberbullying at work: understanding the influence of technology
(Springer, 2018)
We exist at a time when technology has revolutionized the way people work. It is now just as easy to communicate electronically with colleagues thousands of miles away as it is with a co-worker in the same building. While ...
Forgiveness: a new dynamic in workplace bullying
(Springer, 2018)
This chapter makes an original contribution to the substantive area by showing forgiveness as a new response which helps targets of workplace bullying overcome harm and experience healing. Forgiveness, as with the extant ...
Indian perspectives on workplace bullying: a decade of insights
(Springer, 2018)
This book, recognizing that workplace bullying is a significant employment relations and occupational health and safety problem in India which warrants urgent and holistic intervention, presents empirical studies examining ...
Whistleblowing and bullying at work: the role of leaders
(Springer, 2018-04-20)
This chapter discusses the role of leaders in regard to whistleblowing and workplace bullying with some examples from clinical practice. In whistleblowing research, the role of leaders has been described from the earliest ...