Apoorva Goel

Introduction: Family and domestic violence (FDV), including intimate partner violence, affects workplace safety through spillover impacts on workers, organisations, and occupational health systems. To date, workplace responses to the problem of FDV have largely focused on supporting victim-survivors, with little scholarly insight into how employers respond to workers who perpetrate FDV. Method: A scoping review was conducted following Arksey and O’Malley’s framework and reported in accordance with PRISMA-ScR guidelines, which examined existing evidence from workplace policies, practices, and organisational mechanisms addressing FDV perpetration by workers. Peer-reviewed studies and high-quality grey literature on workplace responses to perpetration of FDV were systematically searched across multiple databases and online sources and 19 documents on workplace responses to FDV perpetration were analysed. Results: Findings from the scoping review reveal four dominant insights across the literature: 1. Perpetration of FDV is a major workplace problem, yet responses are under-researched; 2. Workplaces employ wide-ranging and varied responses, from zero tolerance dismissal of perpetrators to responsibility avoidance; 3. Responses lack a solid evidence-base and regulatory frameworks to address the problem remain weak; 4. Practical strategies are provided to better manage risk, strengthen safety, and reduce violence. Conclusions: Our findings underscore the need for clearer organisational guidance, evidence-based strategies, and robust regulatory frameworks to strengthen workplace responses to FDV perpetration and improve occupational safety outcomes. Practical applications: Effective workplace responses to perpetration of FDV should consider work design factors, referral pathways and confidentiality protections which are guided by graduated accountability models and regulatory frameworks.

Violence against healthcare workers is a pervasive global issue. While previous literature has primarily focussed on fellow employees as perpetrators, little is known regarding violence inflicted by patients and their support such as family and visitors. Adopting a regional lens, this study examines the risk factors of violence against healthcare workers inflicted by patients and their support, owing to higher levels of violence in the Asia‐Pacific (APAC) region. We conducted a scoping literature review of 98 APAC‐based empirical studies in peer‐reviewed academic journals in English. The catalysts for violence were classified according to overarching themes of individual attributes of healthcare professionals, care‐centre provisions and infrastructure, accountability of administration and management, as well as patients and their family's backgrounds. Review purpose and rationale were mapped to Arksey and O'Malley's scoping review protocol. These results were further corroborated by some of the collaborative exercises carried out with medical and para‐medical professionals. The findings and insights establish a regional risk assessment and evaluation framework with policy ramifications concerning workers' occupational health and safety. We identify and present several socio‐economic, political, topographical, and methodological investigation avenues.

This study examines the yin (promotive) and yang (prohibitive) of employee voice based on employee preference for voice channel attributes. Employee inputs may be disregarded, requiring employees to maneuver for unheeded voice and adopt alternate voice tactics. The authors emphasize the ubiquity of lurking employee silence and its affective effects on subsequent cycles of voice or silence. Qualitative design involving semi-structured interviews of employees from service sector firms in India assisted the inquiry. Employees prefer voice channel attributes that ensure visibility and data substance for promotive voice and anonymity and confidentiality for prohibitive voice. Voice target switching and message reframing were common employee strategies. Silence on both sharing views/opinions (promotive) and voicing issues/concerns (prohibitive) weakens employee future voice incidents, besides suppressing the affect. Post-silence cognitive reappraisal increases voice incidences. Findings may have limited generalizability given the qualitative design of the study. Moving beyond extant episodic voice research, the authors demonstrate the recurrent nature of employee voice and silence. The study broadens perspectives on how varied voice types necessitate nuanced voice channel attributes. Present work brings together organizational behavior (OB) perspective on discretionary voice through human resource (HR)-based channels, helping bridge the gap between previously disparate stands.

In this work, we have analyzed the perceptions of Master of Business Administration (MBA) enrolled job-seekers towards video resumes along with determining the reasons for preference and non-preference for it. We administered 210 semi-structured self-designed questionnaires among MBA enrolled candidates looking for internships or final year placements of various Indian Universities. They were asked to use a video resume platform followed by filling up a semi-structured questionnaire focussed on gathering viewpoints about the perceived interface features, fairness, validity, privacy. Qualitative data analysis was also done to determine the reasons affecting user’s adoption of platform driven services. Video resumes hosted on video-sharing platforms offer a unique opportunity to both the sides concerned i.e. the job applicant as well as the recruiter. Research on determining video resumes from job applicants’ viewpoints is scarce and this study will add to the paucity of research pool on this topic. Moreover, this is the first study to highlight the issue of security and privacy of video resume platforms and, provide technical recommendations to these platforms from the applicants’ perspective. With this study we hope to reach out to recruiters (practitioners), job-seekers, researchers and information system application developers for better acceptability of the product.