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Abstract

This paper focused on the consequential implications of the violence and harassments employees faced within the home front with a view to emphasizing the need for workplace policies to manage domestic violence. Firms may usually strive to make employees comfortable at work in order to bring out the best of their work behaviors so as to meet or even surpass industry standards and boost firms’ chances in competitiveness.  However, the discomforts employees experience outside the workplace are brought into the workplace which may adversely affect their work behaviors and jeopardize all firms’ efforts at achieving success. It is apparent that employees would prefer to manage in silence their private concerns and firms themselves seem averse to interfering in the private lives of their employees. Nevertheless, this paper contributes to unique dimensions of the study discourse on occupational health and safety management as well as corporate philanthropy. The reliance on the Centeredness Theory and the Theory of Collective Empathy to underscore the need for firms to be interested in the distress experienced by employees within and outside the workplace made this possible.  This Paper suggested open communication and social orientation, amongst others, as strategic workplace solutions to the menace of domestic violence from which specific workplace policies could be drawn.
 Keywords: Culture, Gender, Health, Management, Nigeria, Safety.