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Vamika’s Quandary: Navigating through Workplace Mistreatment

Siddhartha Saxena, Deepa Chaudhary

Product #:W27251
Supplier:Ivey
Discipline:Human Resource Management, Organizational Behaviour/Leadership
Setting:Italy, 2021
Details:Case (PDF) • 6 pages • 2023-01-20

Subjects:

Organizational cultureOrganizational behavior

Industries:

Education institutions

Geography:

EuropeItaly
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A young paralegal joined the London, UK law firm Darby & Fox LLP in August 2020. The position was a one-year contract during the COVID-19 pandemic. The paralegal was subjected to employee discrimination and harassment, starting with a requirement to be in the office, unlike other workers, because she was a newly-hired contract-based employee. She endured overwork, job threats, and simultaneous work assignments from an associate partner, as well as his spouse and colleague. Workplace conflict aggravated her situation, receiving increased workload, longer work hours, lack of compensation for overtime, delegated work from other paralegals, and monitored office activity. Even the process for approval of time off work was changed, making it more cumbersome for her to take a one-day leave. The paralegal wondered how to resolve her situation.

Learning Objectives

This case can be used in courses on the dark side of organizations, human resource management, organizational behaviour, and other areas of people management at the undergraduate and graduate level. This case presents incidents of workplace harassment. The case focuses on workplace conflict among senior employees and discrimination of a junior employee. The case covers various ways that inappropriate behaviour in the workplace is manifested. After working through the case and assignment questions, students will be able to
  • recognize the nature of workplace harassment and the ways in which it is manifested;
  • explain the nature and impact of mistreatment in the workplace, including harassment, discrimination, and bullying;
  • understand the effects of conflict among senior employees and the impact of spouses working together in a workplace; and
  • discuss the implications of resolving incidents of workplace mistreatment.
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Case Study: Vamika’s Quandary: Navigating through Workplace Mistreatment (English version) | Ivey Publishing