Accounting professionals’ legitimacy maintenance of modern slavery inspired extreme work practices in an emerging economy

WIN, Sandar, CHHATBAR, Mehul, PARAJULI, Mahalaxmi Adhikari and CLEMENT, Seyefar (2024). Accounting professionals’ legitimacy maintenance of modern slavery inspired extreme work practices in an emerging economy. The International Journal of Human Resource Management.

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Abstract

It is well-established in the human resource management literature that high intensity and excessive workload can cause undesirable physiological, psychological, behavioural, and social outcomes. However, there is a need to theorise the process by which extreme work has been legitimised and embedded among professionals. In this paper, we view extreme workers as those professionals who contribute to their works beyond acceptable contractual obligations, either voluntarily for personal rewards or involuntarily due to the menace of penalty, or both. We chose to investigate how accounting professionals in India legitimise extreme work in their workplaces using exploratory qualitative research methods and applied economies of worth theoretical framework. Our findings demonstrate that senior accounting professionals with the assistance of professional associations can play an important role in mobilising professional and organisational resources to tackle extreme work in their accounting firms and the industry.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	1503 Business and Management; 1505 Marketing; 1605 Policy and Administration; Industrial Relations; 3505 Human resources and industrial relations; 3507 Strategy, management and organisational behaviour; 5201 Applied and developmental psychology
Identification Number:	https://doi.org/10.1080/09585192.2024.2319794
SWORD Depositor:	Symplectic Elements
Depositing User:	Symplectic Elements
Date Deposited:	11 Mar 2024 10:57
Last Modified:	11 Mar 2024 11:00
URI:	https://shura.shu.ac.uk/id/eprint/33378

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