Workplace Violence

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Introduction
Workplace violence is an action of violent behaviour, physical assault, or threatening behaviour that occurs in a work setting. It causes physical or emotional trauma to customers, co-workers, or managers. Workplace Violence includes beatings, stabbings, suicides, shootings, rapes, near-suicides, threats or obscene phone calls, intimidation, and harassment of any nature (Government Agency, n.d). The workplace can be referring to any location either permanent or temporary as long as the employee performs their work-related duty. General definitions of workplace violence have been mentioned over and over again include acts of sabotage on work-site property (USLEGAL, 2016).

In general not all violence in the workplace is physical. According to Di Martino (2002), the violence is divided to two categories which are non-physical and psychological violence. Psychological violence includes harassment, sexual harassment, bullying and mobbing. While the physical violence at the place of work has been always being known, the psychological violence has been ignored for a long time due to the lack of understanding of its effect but has since been given due attention. Psychological violence prevention is currently emerging as a priority issue at the workplace, leading to a new awareness and re-evaluation of the important of all psychological risks at work. …show more content…

Angry former employees stressed out employees or a conflict between co-workers can elevate to the point of a violent argument in the office. Personal life does sometimes spill over into the workplace, and sometimes those personal issues present themselves at the office with dangerous consequences. Employees driven to desperations by psychological bullying or threats can also react violently if they feel victimised and no one to turn to for help to resolve their

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