Empowering employers to address domestic violence and its impact on the workplace
Domestic violence affects all social and economic classes and age groups, but this type of public crime has traditionally not been linked to the workplace. This study sought to provide a new perspective on domestic violence by focusing on how it can be addressed in work contexts. Qualitative researc...
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| description | Domestic violence affects all social and economic classes and age groups, but this type of public crime has traditionally not been linked to the workplace. This study sought to provide a new perspective on domestic violence by focusing on how it can be addressed in work contexts. Qualitative research was conducted based on a focus group to clarify what companies in Portugal's Algarve region know about this crime and its repercussions for the workplace. The results include recurring themes, such as domestic violence as a taboo subject, the difficulty of detecting this crime at work despite extant well-established indicators of this problem, its repercussions for teams, unawareness of specifically related labour laws and the need to train and inform workers. The findings also cover two emerging topics – corporate social responsibility and occupational health – as intervention areas. Given these results, an action plan was developed to be implemented in organisations in order to provide support to employees who are domestic violence victims. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-c76c13aa216140198729ce4ec57150c92025-01-08T14:07:25ZengUniversity of the Algarve - ESGHT - CIEOTourism & Management Studies2182-84662024-07-012031526Empowering employers to address domestic violence and its impact on the workplaceAdriana Marques Silva 0Joaquim Pinto Contreiras 1Ana Patricia Duarte 2Universidade do Algarve Universidade do Algarve, Research Center for Tourism, Sustainability and Well-BeingIscte Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Business Research Centre (BRU-IUL) Domestic violence affects all social and economic classes and age groups, but this type of public crime has traditionally not been linked to the workplace. This study sought to provide a new perspective on domestic violence by focusing on how it can be addressed in work contexts. Qualitative research was conducted based on a focus group to clarify what companies in Portugal's Algarve region know about this crime and its repercussions for the workplace. The results include recurring themes, such as domestic violence as a taboo subject, the difficulty of detecting this crime at work despite extant well-established indicators of this problem, its repercussions for teams, unawareness of specifically related labour laws and the need to train and inform workers. The findings also cover two emerging topics – corporate social responsibility and occupational health – as intervention areas. Given these results, an action plan was developed to be implemented in organisations in order to provide support to employees who are domestic violence victims.https://www.tmstudies.net/index.php/ectms/article/view/1980domestic violence indicatorsdomestic violence legislationdomestic violence preventionworkplace impactsempowering employers |
| spellingShingle | Adriana Marques Silva Joaquim Pinto Contreiras Ana Patricia Duarte Empowering employers to address domestic violence and its impact on the workplace Tourism & Management Studies domestic violence indicators domestic violence legislation domestic violence prevention workplace impacts empowering employers |
| title | Empowering employers to address domestic violence and its impact on the workplace |
| title_full | Empowering employers to address domestic violence and its impact on the workplace |
| title_fullStr | Empowering employers to address domestic violence and its impact on the workplace |
| title_full_unstemmed | Empowering employers to address domestic violence and its impact on the workplace |
| title_short | Empowering employers to address domestic violence and its impact on the workplace |
| title_sort | empowering employers to address domestic violence and its impact on the workplace |
| topic | domestic violence indicators domestic violence legislation domestic violence prevention workplace impacts empowering employers |
| url | https://www.tmstudies.net/index.php/ectms/article/view/1980 |
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