...Business Assets Protection April 4, 2014 Week 3 Violence in the workplace continues to be a major concern and recently the concern has been growing by situations that have taken place. An assault, or threat of an assault, directed toward a worker on duty falls under the category of workplace violence. There are a lot of issues that can cause workplace violence. Stress, economic hardship and the inability to control anger are all some issues that can lead to health and safety issues. OSHA, as well as state and government agencies give practical guidelines to establish safe working environments, the role of a manager is very important in aiding in the prevention of workplace violence. Manager/supervisors responsibilities are to first ensure that your own behavior and management is the example you want their employees to follow. They need to make sure that their behavior is appropriate. Certain behaviors or allowing certain behaviors from employees can cause a hostile or “unhealthy” work environment. Always remember that allowing any form of aggressive or inappropriate conduct can cause a hostile or threatening work environment. Their employees may feel intimated or harassed while at work. The following are just some things that managers need to do to prevent workplace violence. Involving employees in making decisions can make them feel as if they are valuable versus being frustrated. Managers should always make sure that they assist their employees with conflict...
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...Work place violence (WPV) is an increasing occurrence in the United States (US), particularly in the health care setting. According to Kowalenko et al, rates of WPV are higher among health care workers than any other industry. Statistics shows the rate of violent assaults on health care workers is 8 of 10,000 compared to 2 of 10,000 in other industries (Kelen, Gatlett, Kubit, Hsieh, 2012). The emergency room is considered especially vulnerable. However, it can and has happened in other setting in the hospital such as; recovery rooms, intermediate care, step-down and intensive care settings. . A few of the motives identified are grudge, suicide, ill relative, escape attempt social violence and mentally illness (Kelen et al, 2012). Many nonviolent assaults are not reported or underreported. Nurses are commonly exposed...
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...Case Study#1:- Work-place Violence * Problem Statement:- * Work violence is series of actions that reflects sharp deviation from normal behavior and attitude in the business domain like acting in aggressive ways between co-workers, employees and managers. * It includes verbal and physical actions that in some cases may reach life termination for the employee. * Problem Justification:- * The problem can took place due to several reasons among these reasons, * Sociological and mental reasons. * Financial reasons like job termination. * Personal reasons like conflicts with other employees in the company on the same or higher level. * Alternatives * Alternative#1 * Enhancing the reporting system in the companies to enable the employees to report any threating and suspicious problems * Alternative#2 * Installing metal detectors to prevent future violence * Alternative#3 * Monitor the employee behaviors especially whom had past violence issues and experiences. * Alternative#4 * Establish solid communication channels between the employees and the top management layer to communicate the required objectives and the needed tools to achieve these objectives to ensure transparency is in place and avoid mis-understandings that can pave the way to severe work violence cases * Alternatives Evaluations:- * Alternative#1 * It’s considered...
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...Work Place Violence Problem Definition: It’s the behaviors performed by individuals in order to harm others with whom they work or previously worked, it can occur at or outside the workplace and can range from threats and verbal abuse to physical assaults and homicide. Justification of the Problem: Work place violence is a result of personal and organizational outcomes as individuals may have personal issues (Psychological as depression, anxiety or Post traumatic stress), as for the organizational outcomes it may be due to fear of reoccurrence of an incidence of violence or the fear from the negative thoughts of being attacked regarding past incidence in the same company that you work in. List of Alternatives: * Enhancement of workplace Security. * Reduce the risk of violence through environmental design and employee training. * Better communication between the employees and the management to enhance loyalty and commitment to the company. Evaluate Alternatives: 1. Enhancement of Workplace Security The Security System has to be more efficient, this could be done by re-evaluating the company security plan through increasing the number of cameras and view the hidden places in the building like the stairs or the company store. Change the Security company and use up-to-date technology gates to enable the guards to detect any unfavorable / illegal material that could enter the building and be used to induce violence in the organization ( e.g. guns, knifes)...
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...Identify three preventive steps that an employer might take to avoid incidents of workplace violence. Workplace violence can be any act of violence, against persons or property, threats, intimidation, harassment, or other inappropriate, disruptive behavior that causes fear for personal safety at the work site and affects or involve employees, visitors, contractors. “Violence disrupts productivity, causes untold damage to those exposed to the trauma . . . and costs employers billions of dollars” (Cascio, p.614).Different actions in the work environment can trigger or cause workplace violence such anger over disciplinary actions or the loss of a job, resistance by a customer to regulatory actions; it may be the result of non-work-related situations such as domestic violence, “road rage,” or hate incidents or crime - violence of intolerance and bigotry, intended to hurt and intimidate someone because of their race, ethnicity, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, or disability. Workplace violence can be inflicted by an abusive employee, a manager, supervisor, co-worker, customer, family member, or even a stranger. Given the potential liability caused by dangerous employees and work environments, what can an employer do to reduce the risk of workplace violence? 1. Implement a "zero-tolerance" policy as to violence that is communicated from, and modeled by, every level of management. Include a statement in that policy that weapons are banned...
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...Workplace violence is violence against employee physically or emotionally either it’s a threat or assault. Workplace violence can happen in various ways, physical assault, verbal abuse or a threat, the violence can take place at the workplace or even outside the work place. Workplace violence can happen for many reasons, first the employee is working under high work pressure due to poor work load distribution or a conflict between co-workers. Second, the employee subjection to discrimination for his gender, ethnic or religion. Third is the employee is under paid from the employer for the job done. This reasons and many other reasons can lead to disgruntled employee and push him to violent act as a reaction. In order to prevent workplace violence, I propose the following actions: provide safety education to the employees, Secure the work place, develop and implement policies and regulations for preventing workplace violence. First, providing safety education to the employees, education is always a key solution to many problems, it increases the level of awareness of the employees, it gives them the guide what to do if they’re ever subjected to work violence either from people inside the organization they work for like colleague or manager or from outside the organization like a customer. Education also teaches the employee how to do self-assessment, incase there’re signs of internal violence like getting angry or frustrated due to any circumstances then they will...
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...Violence in the Workplace HCA 250 November 24, 2012 Violence in the workplace has become so bad throughout each state and in the world today. Workplace violence has not only cost American employers in dollars but also in cents. The violence has been taking its toll on the employees day to day. There are beyond numerous numbers of nonfatal acts of violence in the workplace. Who would have thought that waking up in the morning and going to work would be so bad and targeted by violence, discrimination and even some retaliation at work? This has become so sad and disturbing. Now-a-days, children cannot even go to school without being bullied or harassed. The article that was chosen is called “Trends in the Workplace Violence in the Remote Area Nursing Workforce”. This is a very informative article that speaks about the types of violence and how it has increased within the last decade. The article has taken some of the present data of violence in the workplace and compared it to the data that was collected about 13 years ago. The setting of this article took place in Australia and was focused on a few hundred nurses whom worked in rural areas throughout Australia, who worked in the health facilities. According to the article it stated that there has been an “increase in all incidents” that were “reported violence in the workplace between 1995 and 2008” (Opie, Lenthall, & Dollard, 2010). Several times of violence that had been reported were either verbal aggression, physical...
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... In today’s society there has been more and more acts of workplace violence that are being highlighted in the news and media. Workplace violence is becoming one of the most talked about topics in organizational behavior. According to Nelson and Quick, “Organizational behavior is the study of individual behavior and group dynamics in an organization.” From this, one can see how any form of violence in a workplace can effect an organization and make one question the overall ethics and morals of the business and how workplace violence is a major topic in organizational behavior. In order to better understand workplace violence, our group decided to take a look at exactly how often work place violence occurs, past example of workplace violence, and how one might prepare themselves on preventing it at one’s job. According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics (2012) “Workplace violence is defined as nonfatal violence (rape/sexual assault, robbery, and aggravated and simple assault) against employed persons age 16 or older that occurred while they were at work or on duty”. The National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) gathers statistics on violent criminalities against people in the workplace. “Attempts are included with completed victimizations” (BJS 2012). Between 2005 and 2009: Law enforcement officers, security guards, and bartenders had the highest rates of nonfatal workplace violence. Workplace violence accounted for 15% of nonfatal violent crime against persons age 16 or...
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...Woman in the Vedic age was enjoying a higher status. She was the nerve center of the domestic work and was its empress. Domestic happiness and conjugal happiness are constant topics mentioned in the Rig Veda. The seer of the samhitas was never tired of speaking the bond that binds a happy home governed by a woman. But Now-a-Days Violence affects the live of millions of women and girls in all socio-economic classes around the world. It cuts across cultural and religious barriers and takes a variety of forms, from domestic abuse to the child marriages and female circumcision. Violence against women is largely unreported. Fear and stigma often prevent women from reporting incidents of violence or seeking assistance. In fact, 80 percent of women who have been physically abused by their partners have never informed the Police, NGOs or shelters. In December 1999, at the 54th Session, the UN General Assembly adopted a resolution declaring that November 25th the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women and Girls. Types of Violence Against Women Drug Related Violence An alcoholic beats his wife and children. There are number of incidences where under the influence of alcohol a Father raped his own Daughter. Alcoholism increases violence and therefore family interruption takes place. Rape and Custodial Rape In most of the cases the victim is branded as a woman of loose morals. Child and adolescents rape are on the rise, about 58% are below 16 years. In recent...
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...Louis Nuzzolese Technical Writing Dr. Andel 5/4/15 Workplace Violence Since the time we were born we are taught to lookout for the dangers of the world. We are also told the world we live in is an extremely violent place, and to be constantly aware of our surroundings. Everyone knows that at night some neighborhoods are especially violent and dangerous, thus we restrain from going out when it gets late. Everyone knows that you should be careful with people you’re not familiar with for these people may turn out to be treacherous and brutal. The focus of this paper will be homicide in the workplace. Homicide in the workplace is the second leading cause of work related death. We will be specifically covering the violence committed by employees and former employees directed towards coworkers, managers and supervisors. In the last few years much attention is drawn to a new kind of violence. No violence is new violence, it just hasn’t been seen much for a long time. This “new” type of violence that has just recently surfaced is workplace violence. Just as the name suggests, workplace violence happens while at the workplace and it can be a variety of things. This violence ranges from threats and verbal abuse to physical assaults and even homicide. It can affect and involve employees, clients, customers and visitors (USA).” Experts on occupational violence agree that workplace violence prevention programs work wonders. However, these types of programs only get results if a certain...
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...Problem Definition: Expression of physical or verbal force against other people in the workplace, Workplace violence activities range from threats and verbal abuse to actual physical contact and assaults that cause physical harm to other people. Work place violence is a serious concern for most employers, in both private and public sectors. It is essential to understand more about work place violence; simply it is violence or the threat of violence against workers. It can occur inside or outside the work place and can range from threats and verbal abuse to physical assaults and homicide, one of the leading causes of job- related deaths. (OSHA) Justification for problem definition: There are many factors causing workplace violence, based on their personal characteristics at an individual level or population groups such as: - This employee doesn’t give himself any opportunity to express himself and talk about his problems - Unclear policies or procedures organize the work in firm - Bad communication strategy in the firm make the employees isolated to others - Psychological problems and mental illness. where the employee cannot think in a proper way to solve his problems such as Financial problems ,Termination , Personality conflicts …etc - Bad treatment from managers - Having had a violent past or having had a difficult childhood. - Drugs and Alcohol Addiction. - Being in a situation which is likely to lead to violent acts against oneself or others, such as having...
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...In the Romantic Works, Joyce Carol Oates, and Edgar Allen Poe explore the nature of violence through Gothic Elements. In Joyce Carol Oates works such as “Where is Here?”, and “Where Are You Going,Where Have You’ve Been”, and Edgar Allen Poe’s works such as “The Raven”, “A Tell-Tale Heart”, and “The Black Cat”, both of the author's give a form of imagery to create the feeling of violence. Such as Oates creates indirect violence, hidden within the lines, where Poe, has more explicit and direct violence not hidden between the lines. In Oates's works such as ,” Where is Here?”, violence is not told to be happening within the context of the writing, but one has to look more closely to actually see it. For example, in Oates work “Where is Her?” in his writing it says,” This was one of my happy places!-at least when my father was not home. “. When Oates writes about it being peaceful when the father was not home. It suggests that the father in a way was abusive, or in any form violent because in the tex . “The father violently jerked his arm and thrust her away”.In quote to this shows one of the rare direct violence in Oates writing where the father directly jerks the mother's hand away, and where the mother walks away, KNOWING that a bruise the size of a pear would appear on her arm in the morning. In oates other story “Where Are You...
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...What is the Work Violence? * Assaults and other violent acts or threats that occur in or are related to the workplace and entail a substantial risk of physical or emotional harm to individuals or damage to company resources or capabilities. Workplace violence may involve employees, clients and vendors of the affected organization as well as those who do not have a relationship with the organization but who may know the intended victims. Work Violence target is the person toward whom the threat of violence is directed. * Every year, nearly half of US workers report having faced aggression from coworkers, customers, or supervisors. And according to OSH, roughly 20,000 assaults and 792 homicides occurred at workplaces throughout the US in 2005. Such violence prompted the Center for Disease Control and Prevention to label workplace violence a “national epidemic”. * According to the Society of Human Resource Management Workplace, Almost two-thirds of HR professionals stated there had been some sort of violence at their organization within a three year time span. The breakdown of workplace violence incidents is as follows: 54% - Inappropriate language 13% - Verbal abuse 7% - Verbal threats of violence 6% - Sexual harassment 5% - Burglary 4% - Pushing/Shoving 3% - Fistfight 3% - Threatening emails 2% - Stalking 1% - Robbery (holdup) 1% - Bomb threat Causes of Work Violence; * Some employers have not yet fully addressed the issue of workplace...
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...Workplace Violence Case Study Walaa Essam, Group 52F ESLSCA Business School Workplace Violence Case Study Introduction This case study addresses the problem of workplace violence by analyzing two actual incidents which took place at two renowned multinational firms, which are “DaimlerChrysler’s Toledo, Ohio, assembly plant” and “Lockheed Martin”. The purpose of this study is to help finding a useful managerial tool to decrease the potential for future workplace violence that may lead to loss of life and unnecessary monetary loss. Managers are not necessarily equipped to develop appropriate measures to effectively deal with violent issues. Given the proper tool, managers can often work wonders. But we first need to look at how we define the problem of workplace violence. Generally, people think of workplace violence solely in the context of physical assaults or homicides. Many mental health professionals consider such a definition too narrow, and instead define workplace violence more broadly, such as "any verbal or physical assault or any violence that occurs in the workplace even if its source is not related to the work environment or any abusive, threatening, intimidating, or assaulting conduct against a co-worker whether physical or verbal. Such conduct can be seen in the form of shaking fists, throwing objects, destroying company property, written or verbal threats, swearing, insults, condescending language, hitting, shoving, pushing, kicking...
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...that requires constant interactions with peers for the benefit of the patient. But how can one work to his or her full potential when he or she is being harassed and bullied by the very people he or she work with every day? Hearing people whisper your name and snickering, being isolated because you are different, and threatening your well-being all while in charge of taking care of several lives is not what one would expect when working as a nurse, but it is reality. At...
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