Emotional Workplace Abuse: A New Research Approach

Addressing emotional workplace abuse, this Palgrave Pivot takes a multidisciplinary approach which combines feminist research on violence with organisation and management studies, in order to offer a new approach on workplace violations. The book analyses why it is difficult for targets and organisations alike to name and identify emotional abuse and addresses the severe negative effects of abuse on the targets’ lives. It brings ethical leadership to the fore as a means to foster sustainable organisations. Using empirical data and research, this book highlights subtle forms of violations that take place in the workplace, and provides analysis from the perspective of the target. A valuable read for scholars and practitioners involved in organisational management and HRM, Emotional WorkplaceAbuse will help readers to understand the importance of sustainable leadership in preventing emotional workplace abuse.

Elina Penttinen is a University Lecturer and Director of the Master’s Program in Gender Studies at the University of Helsinki (UH), Finland.

Marjut Jyrkinen is an Associate Professor in Working Life Equality and Gender Studies at the UH, and director of the research consortium on sustainable working life.

Elisabeth Wide isa PhD researcher in Sociology and Gender Studies at the UH.