The proposed research is an examination of workplace violence in Corporate America. As a growing concern in all industries, preventive measures need to be explored. Three types of research methods will be compared and contrasted in relation to the proposed research. The methods to be analyzed are quantitative designs, qualitative designs, and mixed methods designs. The appropriateness of each design will be examined as they relate to the topic. Workplace violence is a serious problem that deserves to be explored due to the number of incidents and the severity of some incidents. This study will focus on the possibility of violent encounters which employees of two Boards of Education in separate districts could become victims of considering the events taking place in the districts. The objective of the study is to assess the risk of possible violent occurrences in the two Boards of Education. The study will also examine preventive measures already in place and offer suggestions for improvements to the measures. Quantitative Methods A research design is a plan to gather and analyze information. The plan specifies the procedures and the method that will be used (Zikmund, Babin, Carr, & Griffin, 2010). The first design to explore for conducting research about workplace violence is quantitative research. Quantitative research addresses the objectives of the research by empirical methods that include measurements and the analysis in numerical format (Zikmund et al., 2010). This type of research is appropriate when the objective is a standard managerial action such as deciding to market a new item. (Zikmund et al., 2010) The hypothetical use of quantitative methods to explore workplace violence as it ...
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...red the hypothetical use of three methods of research for the proposed topic. While each method could be beneficial to research, they each have strengths and weaknesses that need to be weighted before choosing a method. Workplace violence is a deadly, costly problem that organizations must be proactive against to ensure the safety of all employees.
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Domestic violence affects the victim physically often times causing injuries that could lead to hospitalization or death, psychologically involving gaining control over the victim as well, and socially by isolating them from family and friends. When we think of the effects of domestic violence it becomes clear that it not only affects the victim and the family but as in recent years, the violence can spill beyond the walls of the home into the neighborhood and the workplace resulting in what has become more and more common, domestic violence related workplace shootings. Domestic v...
Workplace violence can be caused by a number of underlying factors which can include but is not limited to alcohol and drug abuse, job loss, depression, mental illnesses, or an accumulation of debt. In addition, when people are mistr...
There are two types of research that can be conducted in research studies, these are qualitative and quantitative (Newman, 2011). Qualitative research is a process that uses detailed oriented methodology that tries to achieve a profound knowledge or understanding of specific incident and circumstance, wh...
Has the thought ever crossed your mind that you could be gunned down while tabulating this month’s sales figures, attending a working review of a future briefing or simply having coffee with a co-worker while you talk about the upcoming weekends plans? Perhaps it should, it crossed my mind several times after listening on the phone to the panic, screams and faint sound of gunfire occurred at the Washington Navy Yard. Despite my training and years of experience it seems that retirement has dulled my sight somewhat, I put those lenses back on a took a hard look at the building I work in between 40-50 hours a week a now see that it is a potential slaughterhouse. A design accentuated by limited exits within sight of one another, closed off office spaces and limited internal locks would provide an advantages to an active shooter with even limited skill.
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Nurses continually strive to bring holistic, efficient, and safe care to their patients. However, if the safety and well-being of the nurses are threatened or compromised, it is difficult for nurses to work effectively and efficiently. Therefore, the position of the American Nurses Association (ANA) advocate that every nursing professional have the right to work in a healthy work environment free of abusive behavior such as bullying, hostility, lateral abuse and violence, sexual harassment, intimidation, abuse of authority and position and reprisal for speaking out against abuses (American Nurses Association, 2012).
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Eisenstark, Lam, McDermott, Quanbeck, Scott and Sokolov (2007) reported that twenty five percent of mental health nurses working in public sector hospitals take the major risk in violent attacks from patients resulting a series injury: the prevalence rate being as high as three times that of any vocational group (Del Bel,2003).this number implies that nurses physical as well as emotional health is being compromised largely each day (Lanza, 1992). Another study done from five mental health inpatient units over a period of seven months, indicated that seventy-eight percent of violent incidences came from nurses (Jones, Owen, Tarantello, and Tennant,1998).Nurses are not the only ones being challenged by violence. A study done by Albert Banerjee et.al (2008) in long term care facilities, a shocking number of personal support workers have been a victim of workplace violence. Almost half (43%) of support workers reported they experience violence in everyday work activities. 16.8% of registered nurses and one quarter (24.6%) of licensed practical nurses, registered practical nurses, and registered nursing assistants experience violence on a daily basis. In 2000, social service workers incidence injuries also rose by 9.3 from work related assaults and injuries. As significant as this numbers could be, the numbers could go higher if those underreported cases are reflected that’s comes with the employees belief, “reporting won’t change
Now within the rest of this paper you will be finding a few different things getting discussed. Staring it off we will be discussing the articles that we have found to make our arguments and hypotheses. After wrapping up the literature reviews we will be discussing the hypotheses thus continuing onto our variables and indicators. Once we discuss our hypotheses we will be moving onto the research design. The research design will have our general issues, sampling, and methods.
Research shows horizontal violence to be prevalent in the field of registered nursing. Although a comprehensive quantity of incidences within the profession is undetermined, the literature is in agreement such phenomenon exists and the effects of which require further scholarly observation and evaluation.
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The nature of research instruments, the sampling plan and the type of data the research design constitutes the blueprint for the collection, the measurement and analysis of data. It aids the researcher in the allocation of his limited resources by posing crucial choices.