Unfairness, bullying, gossip and loneliness, and what they mean for the people who live with them.
Research overview / 4 publications in this theme
This strand follows the everyday experiences that shape how people feel and behave at work: perceived unfairness, bullying, workplace gossip and the loneliness that can come with them.
The papers use mediation and moderated-mediation designs to trace how one experience connects to another, for example how meaningful work figures in bullying during work-from-home, and how workplace loneliness connects unfair workplaces to their costs.
Only the concepts named in the papers themselves or in her research statement, with where each comes from.
Authors in published order. Each summary describes what the work examines.
Maheshwari, S., Kaur, A. & Varma, A. (2024)
Personnel Review, 53(7), 1710-1728
Whether finding your work meaningful changes how workplace bullying lands when the workplace is your home.
Kaur, A., Maheshwari, S. & Varma, A. (2026)
Evidence-based HRM, 14(1), 120-137
Why people retreat into their phones at work when office gossip wears them down, and what that costs them.
Firoz, M., Khan, A., Maheshwari, S. & Kaur, A. (2026)
International Journal of Conflict Management, 37(3), 629-646
What happens inside teams when people feel treated unfairly: what they stop sharing, and what it does to them.
2025
Anusandhan, RDAIS
Best Paper Award, HR and General Management Division
The ethical implications of abusive supervision in hospitality workplaces, set against the push to go green.
Reputation Today, 2025. Authored.
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