Examining Workplace Violence as it Unfolds: Toward a Video-Based Microsociological Approach
Postdoc Camilla Bank Friis has published a new article in International Journal of Workplace Health Management together with Lars Peter Sønderbo Andersen, Marie Rosenkrantz Lindegaard and Lasse Suonperä Liebst.
The article proposes a microsociological approach to better understand how workplace encounters escalate into acts of victimization. Demonstrating the potential, the authors draw on a work situation recorded with body-worn camera as a case to conduct qualitative process analysis of how interactional dynamics involving status and emotions shape the step-by-step progression of this high-risk encounter. This case illustrates how a micro-interactional analysis of risky work situations can reveal the mechanisms of violence and inform situational prevention strategies. The article demonstrates how a microsociological approach, grounded in a novel video-observational method, yields unique insights into the interactional dynamics that causally shape incidents of workplace violence.