Indian Perspectives on Workplace Bullying (PDF)

he has numerous papers published in reputed peer-reviewed journals on these topics. He has been awarded bi-lateral and multi-lateral grants to study various aspects of employee experiences of work in India's offshoring and outsourcing sector, focusing on new and unexplored areas such as organizational control, diversity, telework and collectivization. Ernesto has been a visiting professor at the Industrial and Labour Relations (ILR) School, Cornell University and at the Institute for Sociology, University of Vienna. He has presented invited talks as a visiting scholar at numerous European universities such as Strathclyde, Portsmouth, Bergen and Hamburg, in addition to the keynote address at the 2010 Work, Employment and Society (WES) conference.




Avina Mendonca is Assistant Professor of Organizational Behaviour at the Indian Institute of Management Nagpur, India. A Fellow in Organizational Behaviour from the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, India, her doctoral dissertation explored employees' lived experiences of beauty service work as dirty work. Before pursuing her doctoral studies, Avina worked as a lecturer of Organizational Behaviour at Vivekananda College of Engineering and Technology, Puttur, India. Avina's research interests include customer abuse, dirty work, identity, resistance, service work and workplace bullying. She has co-authored a chapter on flow among academicians in the collection New Ways of Studying Emotions in Organizations (2015, Emerald). Her article on bad apple behaviour in groups and teams (2017, co-authored with Saravana Jaikumar) has appeared in Team Performance Management: An International Journal.




Nidhi Mishra is a doctoral scholar in Organizational Behaviour at the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, India. Her current research, anchored in postpositivism and located in India's IT/ITES-BPO sector, aims at understanding targets' subjective experiences of the forgiveness response to workplace bullying. Her research interests include workplace forgiveness, workplace bullying, coping, emotions and power. Nidhi has co-authored a book chapter titled "Understanding Flow among Academicians" published in 2015 by Emerald, in addition to providing teaching assistance for the course 'Socio-Political Contexts for Research in Management' at the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad. She has presented papers at national and international conferences. Prior to pursuing her doctoral studies, Nidhi worked as a software engineer for 3 years at Accenture Services Private Limited, Mumbai, India.