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This book showcases empirical studies on workplace bullying from a range of Asian countries, including China, India, Indonesia, Israel, Japan, Jordan, Malaysia, Pakistan, Singapore, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Thailand, UAE and Vietnam, and is the first-of-its-kind single academic project documenting workplace emotional abuse in the world's largest continent. It encompasses the 'varieties of workplace bullying' conceptualization in addition to category-based harassment and abusive supervision, and presents target, bystander and interventionist perspectives, along with contextualized insights into the phenomenon. The book speaks to the significance of sociocultural factors and draws on several theoretical and substantive bases including dignity, social cynicism, coping, gender, sexual orientation, job insecurity, turnover intention, affective events theory, attribution theory, regulation and policy initiatives. Covering all major regions in Asia where workplace bullying has been foundto occur, namely West Asia, South Asia, Southeast Asia and East Asia, the book portrays studies which engage both positivist and postpositivist paradigms, utilize an array of methods and include a range of industrial sectors and employment contracts and all levels of the organization. While focused on Asia, the book's insights have international relevance and are of interest to the worldwide community of researchers, practitioners and students of organizational studies, human resource management, industrial sociology, work psychology, industrial relations, labour law, corporate law, health sciences, social work and Asian studies.
Premilla D'Cruz, Ph.D., is Professor, Organizational Behaviour, Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, India. Together with Ernesto Noronha, Premilla has conducted pioneering research on workplace bullying which has been published in high-ranking peer-reviewed journals and books. She is Chief Co-Editor of Handbooks of Workplace Bullying, Emotional Abuse and Harassment (Springer, 2021). Other research interests include emotions at work, self and identity at work, whistleblowing at work, positive organizational scholarship, and technology and work. Premilla has been President of the International Association on Workplace Bullying and Harassment (IAWBH), 2016-2018.
Ernesto Noronha, Ph.D., is Professor, Organizational Behaviour, Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, India. Together with Premilla D'Cruz, Ernesto has conducted pioneering research on workplace bullying which has been published in high-ranking peer-reviewed journals and books. He is Chief Co-Editor of Handbooks of Workplace Bullying, Emotional Abuse and Harassment (Springer, 2021). Other research interests include workplace dignity, workplace diversity, labour and globalization, and technology and work. Ernesto is Section Editor of Labour Relations and Business Ethics at Journal of Business Ethics.
Avina Mendonca is Assistant Professor, Organizational Behaviour, Indian Institute of Management Nagpur, India. She completed her doctoral degree in Organizational Behaviour from Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad. Avina's research interests include dirty work, identity, service work and workplace bullying. She has co-edited Indian Perspectives on Workplace Bullying: A Decade of Insights (Springer, 2018) and co-authored a chapter on workplace bullying in the context of dirty work in Handbooks of Workplace Bullying, Emotional Abuse and Harassment (Springer, 2021).
