Silent Wounds: Unmasking Emotional Abuse and Psychosocial Risks in Australian Organisations DOI Creative Commons

Linda Shallcross,

Susan H. Bland

IntechOpen eBooks, Год журнала: 2025, Номер unknown

Опубликована: Март 10, 2025

This chapter discusses the urgent imperative to address psychosocial risks within Australian workplaces by unmasking intricate dynamics of emotional abuse and psychological violence. With detailed case studies examination over 200 workers’ compensation claims for injury, research highlights critical hazards impacting workplace culture, including mobbing, bullying, discriminatory practices. It delineates typical experience victims, highlighting phases mobbing that lead injury. The analysis demonstrates how inadequate leadership, toxic organisational cultures exacerbate these issues. Emphasising need systemic reform, advocates comprehensive strategies aimed at fostering healthier work environments prioritise mental well-being procedural fairness. By bringing light experiences marginalised groups, especially First Nations people other oppressed communities, calls an re-evaluation practices policies, aiming dismantle systems allow such detrimental behaviours persist. Ultimately, this strives inspire a profound cultural change eliminate improve safety.

Язык: Английский

Silent Wounds: Unmasking Emotional Abuse and Psychosocial Risks in Australian Organisations DOI Creative Commons

Linda Shallcross,

Susan H. Bland

IntechOpen eBooks, Год журнала: 2025, Номер unknown

Опубликована: Март 10, 2025

This chapter discusses the urgent imperative to address psychosocial risks within Australian workplaces by unmasking intricate dynamics of emotional abuse and psychological violence. With detailed case studies examination over 200 workers’ compensation claims for injury, research highlights critical hazards impacting workplace culture, including mobbing, bullying, discriminatory practices. It delineates typical experience victims, highlighting phases mobbing that lead injury. The analysis demonstrates how inadequate leadership, toxic organisational cultures exacerbate these issues. Emphasising need systemic reform, advocates comprehensive strategies aimed at fostering healthier work environments prioritise mental well-being procedural fairness. By bringing light experiences marginalised groups, especially First Nations people other oppressed communities, calls an re-evaluation practices policies, aiming dismantle systems allow such detrimental behaviours persist. Ultimately, this strives inspire a profound cultural change eliminate improve safety.

Язык: Английский

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